Books
Publications include:
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Stars (five editions from 1981)
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors (three editions from 1985)
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Directors (two editions)
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Comedy Stars
- TV Times Film Guide (six editions from 1994)
- Wicked Women of the Screen
- British Sound Films: The Studio Years
Read more about this topic: David Quinlan (film Critic)
Famous quotes containing the word books:
“I always was of opinion that the placing a youth to study with an attorney was rather a prejudice than a help.... The only help a youth wants is to be directed what books to read, and in what order to read them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as “spectacles” to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)