‘A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book’
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, novelist
‘Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read’
GROUCHO MARX, humourist
‘Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable’
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, literary wit and politician
‘I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all’
W SOMERSET MAUGHAM, novelist
‘Writing today is like standing stark naked in Trafalgar Square and being told to get an erection’
LOUIS de BERNIERES, novelist
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