
Attributed to Allen by Herb Caen in Reader's Digest, October 1967. For additional citations see this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/speed-reading/.
Attributed to Allen by Herb Caen in Reader's Digest, October 1967. For additional citations see this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/speed-reading/.
On Alexander Pushkin in Four Letters Concerning Dead Souls (1843)
As I myself read.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e
“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”
Taxed Beyond Belief (2002)
“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
Pt. II, sc. v, Spirit Sinister
The Dynasts (1904–1908)
“Tolstoy's War and Peace is overblown – do yourself a favour and read his Death of Ivan Ilych.”
Interview by Tom Vowler (2010-13)
Leicester Pioneer (7 August 1914), quoted in The Times (18 January 1924), p. 14
1910s
Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Random House Incorporated, 2008
Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman