Ability Quote by Joe Queenan

“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”

— Joe Queenan

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

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

“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.”

— Joe Queenan

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

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

“But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.”

— Joe Queenan

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

— Joe Queenan

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

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

— Joe Queenan

“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.”

— Joe Queenan

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