Joe Queenan
Joe Queenan
Joseph "Joe" Queenanis an American journalist, critic, and essayist...
book inquiring psychological
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.
book mind lovers
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
love book smell
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.
children book thinking
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
book weapons siege
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
believe book light
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects themselves are sacred, not just the stories they tell. We believe that books possess the power to transubstantiate, to turn darkness into light, to make being out of nothingness.
beautiful book way
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them because they were diverting or illuminating or in some way useful but not because the books themselves were aesthetically appealing.
book sadness may
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
book taken fighting
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.
book people lending
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
disappointment book reality
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
drink gets guys reach
That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who drink beer.
house owns understand
I don't understand that, because nobody, like, 18 owns a house or a Lexus,
basically experience improve matter unpleasant
No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it's an unpleasant experience.