Quotes from Amanda Cross

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.