Steven Price - 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, & Comebacks

All the Kings Horses: The Story of The Budweiser Clydesdales

The American Quarter Horse

The Beautiful Baby Naming Book

The Best Advice Ever Given

Caught Me A Big Un (with Jimmy Houston)

Civil Rights (Vols. 1 & 2)

Classic Horse Stories

Essential Riding

Get a Horse!

The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told

Horseback Vacation Guide

The Horsemans Illustrated Dictionary

The Kids Book of the American Quarter Horse

The Lyons Press Horsemans Dictionary (with Jessie Shiers)

Old as the Hills: The Story of Bluegrass Music

Panorama of American Horses

The Polo Primer

The Quotable Horse Lover

Riding for a Fall

Ridings a Joy (with Joy Slater)

Schooling to Show (with Anthony DAmbrosio, Jr.)

The Second-Time Single Mans Survival Guide

Take Me Home: The Ride of Country & Western Music

Teaching Riding at Summer Camp

Two Bits Book of the American Quarter Horse

The Ultimate Fishing Guide

The Whole Horse Catalog

Literary Insults Throwing the Book

Ouch.

Alexander Woollcott, his entire review of a play entitled Wham!

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; Ill waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so hed have someone to look up to.

Gene Fowler

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Jonathan Swift

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

A. E. Housman on an unidentified author

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

anonymous English professor, Ohio University

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me!

composer Max Reger to Rudolph Louis, music critic of a Munich newspaper

This is not a book that should be tossed lightly aside. It should be hurled with great force.

Dorothy Parker, reviewing The Cardinals Mistress, a novel by Benito Mussolini

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good over-arm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Nancy Banks-Smith, review of M. M. Kayes The Far Pavilions

Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow and poisons our literary club for me. I class him among infidel wasps and venomous insects.

James Boswell on Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Gibbons style is detestable; but it is not the worst thing about him.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Edward Gibbon

Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Ernest Hemingway

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Carson McCullers

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner

He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences are from here to the airport.

Carolyn Chute on William Faulkner

Even those who call Mr. Faulkner our greatest literary sadist do not fully appreciate him, for it is not merely his characters who have to run the gauntlet but also his readers.

Clifton Fadiman on William Faulkner

He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet.

Truman Capote on William Faulkner

Thats not writing, thats typewriting.

Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac

A great zircon in the diadem of American literature.

Gore Vidal on Truman Capote

A fungus of pendulous shape.

Alice James on George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

George Meredith on George Eliot

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

James Dickey on Robert Frost