John Mortimer Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Play, People

  "This much I know". Interview with Jonathan Heawood, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

• I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Believe, Book

• The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Cutting, Squad

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