Writing/Reading

I have read your book and much like it.

-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer

This book fills a much-needed gap.

-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

-- Oliver Herford

Why don't you write books people can read?

-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

-- Abraham Lincoln

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

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

-- André Maurois

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.

-- Montesquieu

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

-- Flannery O'Connor

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

-- Flannery O'Connor

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