The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- Jane Austen

Sunday, 29 August 2010

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‘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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