Quotes About Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

To build a world for someone seems a romantic thing from where I stand." Dov shook his head. "Sam Masur, that fucked-up, romantic kid.

Why are the cute ones always such sociopaths?" "Win doesn't seem like so much of a sociopath," I replied without thinking. "Oh, really? So, you think he's cute, do you? At least you're admitting it now." I shook my head. Scarlet was incorrigible. "Admitting it is the first step, Annie.

Her mother likes to say that novels have ruined Amelia for real men.

Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

This is the most violent poetry game I've ever played,' Marx said.

Sadie the gamer found this scene sexist and strange.

On the third day, he brought a library copy of the novel Galatea 2.2, which he had recently enjoyed.

No, this is a great game. That's Cobainus. The eleven stars of Cobainus form a fuzzy grandma sweater," Marx said.

Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.

I hate book parties," A.J. says. "But you run the bookstore," Lambiase says. "It's a problem," A.J. admits.

Los Angeles, he decided, was a profoundly stupid city, and he felt a palpable, if irrational, longing for all things Massachusetts.

Friends, Romans, countrymen,' Marx said, 'calm down.

Elmo, a character A.J. has always despised because he seems too needy. "Elmo!

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece

she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.

It was a fine speech from a putz.

He settles on the Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth.

The Thai food arrived. Dov made conversation as if it were a normal night, and not their last supper.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest.