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Quotes About Doorstop

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon.
~ Laura van den Berg
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
~ Jack Nance
A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.
~ Colum McCann
Great American Novel" = "doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.
~ Lionel Shriver