The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Authors Quotes
When I want to read a book, I write one.
The present age, if we consider chiefly the state of our own country, may be stiled with great propriety The Age of Authors; for, perhaps, there never was a time, in which men of all degrees of ability, of every kind of education, of every profession and employment, were posting with ardour so general to […]
Great literature must spring from the upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present, then it must come from the works of any other author which can be easily adapted.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
