Maybe not entirely humorous, but interesting thoughts taken from The Book of Poisonous Quotes, compiled by Colin M. Jarman.  My comments are in parentheses, but I found it most strange that the majority of the ‘Literature’ quotations are by writers or publishers, about writers or their works: 

A Literary Critic is a person who can find a meaning in literature that the author didn’t know was there – Cleveland Times.    (I read somewhere that Harper Lee, being pressed by a reporter to discuss the deeper meaning found in To Kill a Mockingbird, replied, “‘Sometimes a story is just a story.”)

The chap who said that truth is stranger than fiction died before fiction reached its present state of development. – Elmira Star Gazette

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace a hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop. – Alfred Hitchcock    (I, too prefer a heavy hardcover book, but not for this reason!)

It does no harm to repeat as often as you can: “Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the subagents, the sub-subagents, …the reviewers, the book pages – all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.” – Doris Lessing 

Poetry is what gets lost in translation – Robert Frost

Poetry is living proof that rhyme doesn’t pay – Anonymous   (Can I have an ‘Amen’ to this one?)

On her last “Constant Reader Column” – I am about to leave literature flat on its face.  I don’t want to review books any more.  It cuts in too much on my reading. – Dorothy Parker, The New Yorker

On “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” – We fancy that any real child might be more puzzled than enchanted by this stiff, overwrought story. – Children’s Books, 1865    (Hey – I’m just along for the ride!)