[ComputerGuy]

Author revealed hisself quickly. Don’t know how, except he was the only double-letter name I could come up with.

[MustKnowHistory]

Yes. I took a good guess at DOZD, which gave me the author’s name, et voila. Much easier than it would seem.

[Steven Tyler]

For me, words three, nine, then back to six

[scrabblehack]

B.B. King, C.C. Sabathia, and e.e. cummings didn’t fit.

Dorothy Parker panned one of his books. He said something
like “Never mind the children, Mrs. Parker will love it.”

[nikos1121]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[grey_whiskers]

1 min.

1st 3 words, 5th & 6th words, 7th 8th 9th, off to the races.

I guessed at the author but had misremembered his initials, so I had to do it the hard way.