Humor Quote by Olivia Cunning

“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd of numbers…

— Lemony Snicket

“The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over…

— Charles Benoit

“Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi.…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared,…

— Michael Anthony

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't…

— Arthur Golden

“Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of the world…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven…

— Alex de Campi

“She has just written a book too; bizarre sort of thing called the ‘Rent Veil’ or the ‘Torn Scarf’ or something like that.”

— Rebecca N. Porter

“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers. By the…

— Alice McDermott

“Memoirs? No, we want a how-to book. For spies.” “A how-to book?! A book can’t teach someone how to be equal parts deadly and…

— It Books

“She used to write all the time,' Elizabeth explained, 'before she lost all that weight. Remember? When she was the butt of everyone’s jokes…

— Francine Pascal