Famous quotes containing the words volume and/or work:
“There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the authors permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasnt brotherlywho lived mostly under his parents roof ... who advocated one days work and six days off as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown ... is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)