Book Quotes by Dave Barry

Reading... a vacation for the mind…

— Dave Barry

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

— Dave Barry

I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

— Dave Barry

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

— Dave Barry

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

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“Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A…

— Dave Barry

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

— Dave Barry

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

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The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue…

— Dave Barry

My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're…

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There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that…

— Dave Barry

I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire…

— Dave Barry

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have…

— Dave Barry

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my…

— Dave Barry

I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and…

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All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions…

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I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights.…

— Dave Barry

I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you…

— Dave Barry

Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers…

— Dave Barry

I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I…

— Dave Barry

I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.…

— Dave Barry

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it…

— Dave Barry

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being…

— Dave Barry

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones…

— Dave Barry

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and…

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But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth-…

— Dave Barry

I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods,"…

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I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and…

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I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the…

— Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often,…

— Dave Barry