The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“Vegard and Riston's job today was to guard and protect me. And considering that I was in a tower room in the… — Lisa Shearin Copy Share Image
“Sai stands in his spineless way, young but antiquated, studious but not clever, a thick steel watch on his wrist, his oiled… — Manu Jospeh Copy Share Image
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
“His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men are killers and your worst men… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
You don't have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can't talk me out of them either. I love you" Her smile… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's… — John McLeod Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image