Quotes by Rosten, Leo

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is >>

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by >>

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacit >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistanc >>

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it th >>

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of >>

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo