"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."
Thornton Wilder.
"Someone told me that each equation I included
in the book would halve the sales"
Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time).
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (...more
Ambrose Bierce Quotes).
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing
seem like a solid and stable business."
John Steinbeck.
"I have been commissioned to write an autobiography
and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could
tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974."
Jeffrey Bernard.
"Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they
pass all understanding."
James I.
"They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun,
which I thought served him right."
Winston Churchill.
"The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one
of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world
doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead."
Stephen Leacock.
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker.
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had
no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because
by that time I was too famous."
Robert Benchley.
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