Phil Maggitti

Phil Maggitti is a freelance writer and editor who lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife, four cats, two pug dogs, a Boston terrier, and a life-size poster of Bob Marley.

He has written eight books and more than eight hundred articles since quitting his day job in 1982.

Although Mr. Maggitti has written on a variety topics for numerous publications, the majority of his work has explored the points at which the lives of animals and people intersect.

Titles

Postcards from the Pug Bus

Quote of the day

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.
Emily Dickinson

A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck

There are books...which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Ernest Hemingway

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

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Phil Maggitti

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