image: Quentin Crisp sitting at a table with his right hand touching his chin.

For those who admired him for his Intellect, Humanity and Courage.
Dedicated to the memory of
Quentin Crisp

Books are for writing. Do not read any more books.
Everyone can write one little book, and it should be about himself.
But if you read books, you will try to write literature, and that is always a mistake.
It makes your work like other people's; it means we lose the sound of your voice.

- Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations

The image of this book was contributed to the site by Maurice Heerdink. Thanks Maurice.

Published : 1989

Author : Quentin Crisp (Edited by Amy Appleby)

"Ideas of being gay " Quentin Crisp has written, "have altered more rapidly in the past century than in all of previous recorded time. " Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations dramatically documents that change through quotations - both historical and contemporary - from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen, Mae West and Rita Mae Brown, Michelangelo and Margaret Mead.