Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes p…

- Joe Queenan

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 ch…

- Joe Queenan

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

- Joe Queenan

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…

- Joe Queenan

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfec…

- Joe Queenan

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

- Joe Queenan

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

- Joe Queenan

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…

- Joe Queenan

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

- Joe Queenan