“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics.… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
