Michael Frissore > Michael's Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”
― Fred Allen

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
― Philip Roth

“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide."

[Writer's Digest, September 1961]”
― Harper Lee

“What George was thinking was that the late king Herod had been unjustly blamed for a policy which had been both statesmanlike and in the interests of the public. He was blaming the mawkish sentimentality of the modern legal system which ranks the evisceration and secret burial of small boys as a crime.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress