Joe Orton Quote

I was enraged that there were so many rubbishy novels and rubbishy books. It reminded me of the Bible: 'Of the making of books, there is no end', because there isn't. Libraries might as well not exist; they've got endless shelves of rubbish and hardly any space for good books.

As quoted in: Prick Up Your Ears: the Biography of Joe Orton (1978) by John Lahr