Book Quote by Joe Queenan

“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.”

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He wasn't a happy drunk and when he'd had too much, his frustration spilled out of him in an angry torrent of false bravado.…

— Ed Duncan

“I admit I'm an escapist when it comes to books. I become drunk on story, on words, as a buffer against reality.' . .…

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“The joy made him feel like a drunken man. To teach and exhort and explain to his people--and to have them understand. That was…

— Carson McCullers

“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going to enjoy…

— Lev Grossman

“Everyone has his alcohol. To exist is alcohol enough for me.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.”

— Olen Steinhauer

“The stuff was tremendous, like drinking your favorite book.”

— Neal Stephenson

“He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of…

— Mark Haddon

“I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had…

— Allan Dare Pearce