Long List Quotes
![Star Jones quote: "And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I..."](/pic/34369/600x316/quotation-star-jones-and-i-had-this-big-long-list-of-what-i-wanted-in-a.jpg)
The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to appreciate the oregano-heavy garlic bread, the individual bowls for olive pits, the starched napkins stuffed into our wineglasses, or the waiter's strained enunciation of a long list of specials.
Jonathan Lethem
![Dean Koontz quote: "I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and..."](/pic/60864/600x316/quotation-dean-koontz-ive-got-a-long-list-of-books-i-wish-id-never.jpg)
![Richard Aldington quote: "The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the..."](/pic/376290/600x316/quotation-richard-aldington-the-casualty-lists-went-on-appearing-for-a.jpg)
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.
John McGahern