#ok

Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead. ↗

— David Crystal

#jokes #language-play #humor

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#humor #life #philosophy #reading #humor

Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott) ↗

— Rachel Gibson

#humor #rachel-gibson #romance-novels #see-jane-score #humor

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #criticism #humor #interpretation #literature

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #music #musicians #reading #humor

If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something. ↗

— Rachel Gibson

#humor #rachel-gibson #romance #see-jane-score #humor

I would have understood if they had of killed him~~MaryL Daughter of Darkness ↗

— L.J. Smith

#night-world #humor

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. ↗