Of Books and Booze

Alcoholic Refreshment and the Written Word

What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allan Poe

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

William Faulkner

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Dorothy Parker

Really, some scientists should investigate how it is possible for man to drink such stuff in such huge quantities.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe…

J.R.R. Tolkien

I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

Raymond Chandler

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Mary Shelly

…so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Alexandre Dumas (père)

I looked up to women who drink. My heart belonged to the defiant ones, the cigarette smokers, the pants wearers, the ones who gave a stiff arm to history.

Sarah Hepola

It’s time once again to examine the intersection of alcoholic refreshment and the written word . . . .

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