Book of Numbers
Joshua Cohen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.”
“The only thing worse than an Aussie or Kiwi intonation is its intermittent use. When it's Auckland talking, or Melbourne, fine. But when a snatch of downunder drawl erupts from the mouth of a Euro, it's like blood in your urine.”
“The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.”
“How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?”
“there was Frankfurt's skyline, like apocalypse does Dallas. Your friendly neighborhood global banking headquarters - Deutsche Bank's logo of a blue square slit diagonally has always read to me like the desolate vagina of a war widow.”
“Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.”
“Lift up the hem of verbiage, peek below its frillies – what’s exposed? the hairy truth?”
“In the future we would have total storage, all of us would, our media libraries would dematerialise and just float above us, books would no longer sit on the shelves reminding us that we had not read them, music and TV and film formats would no longer clutter the den reminding us of all we had not yet listened to or watched.”
“Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?”
“Death is the only monopoly. Nothing can compete.”
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Book Keywords:
literature, books, verbiage, reader, future, relationship, writer, accents, storage, characters, authors, death, media
