“Garg works in the great tradition of Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis… Garg, however, is more fun.”
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Robert
Armstrong
2003-02-23
Just the right books for when words fail you
Samantha
Puckett
St. Petersburg Times
2003-01-19
Writing Life
“Garg works in the great tradition of Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis… Garg, however, is more fun.”
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Robert
Armstrong
2003-02-23
Just the right books for when words fail you
“The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist
“Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
"The world: an explanation" in The Daily Telegraph (8 March 2003) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/custom?q=cache:hZVARej7mn0J:www.martinamisweb.com/documents/world_explanation.doc&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8&client=pub-4015880282924246 <br class="br">Context: What happened on September 11? On September 11 — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts.<br>Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. And with words destroyed, we had to make do, we had to bolster truth with colons and repetition: not only repetition: but repetition and: colons. This is what we adduce.
“Words, in the final analysis, are just about as futile as actions, and much less fun.”
Robert Sheckley book The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton
Source: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 39)
“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”
Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation
Source: Dept. of Speculation
Jodie Marsh (1978) English glamour model and television personality
Interview in The Guardian, 25 January 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/25/broadcasting.bigbrother
“You can only make the slit so much higher, the stiletto so much taller.”
Tom Ford (1961) American fashion designer
Tom Ford Visits Oxford, Pang, Jeanine Celeste, March 2005, fashionlines.com, March 12, 2016 http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/mar/fashionTrendsFord.php,