Alcohol Quote by Pamela Dean

“Reading good literature is not so different then taking good drugs, do it enough and it will certainly alter your mind. The drugs can…

— Andrew James Pritchard

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

— David Foster Wallace

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk…

— H. L. Mencken

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of…

— Christopher Hitchens

...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe…

— David Nicholls

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature.…

— Italo Calvino

For me, alcohol just has a negative effect.

— Joey Barton

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has…

— Anton Chekhov

“There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample…

— Marshall McLuhan

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

— Mo Yan

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett