“I
heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays
of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis
Bacon.”
Bill Hirst
“Thank
you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time
reading it.”
Moses Hadas
“I
have read your book and much like it.”
Moses Hadas
“This
book fills a much-needed gap.”
Moses Hadas
“The
covers of this book are too far apart.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Everywhere
I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion
is that they don’t stifle enough of them.”
Flannery O’Connor
“From
the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed
with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
Groucho Marx
“Manuscript:
something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”
Oliver Herford
“Copy
from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.”
Wilson Mizner
“Why
don’t you write books people can read?”
Nora Joyce to her husband James
“Some
editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
T.S. Eliot
“Criticism
is prejudice made plausible.”
Henry Louis Mecken
“It
is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Tom Stoppard
“The
difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy
“The
man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot
read them.”
Mark Twain
“There’s
many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
Flannery O’Connor
“A
poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valery
“A
man is known by the books he reads.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Readers
are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
Harriet Martineau
“In
science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by
everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s
exactly the opposite.”
Paul Dirac
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