Fat Volumes

Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or volumes:

    Mrs. Coley’s three-flat brick
    Isn’t here any more.
    All done with seeing her fat little form
    Burst out of the basement door....
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)