„One man is as good as another until he has written a book.“
— Benjamin Jowett Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817 - 1893
„I think of Neuromancer as being, in a good sense, an adolescent book. It's a young man's book. It was written very young-man's-book. It was written by a man who was not very young, when he wrote it, but who was sufficiently immature.“
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„God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.“
— Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626
„I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task."“
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
July 21, 1763, p. 126
„You are being dishonest if you are not writing about sex in your book. It is very natural and normal. Well, I have earned the name of 'dirty old man' but there is not much sex in my books. What I have written is very serious stuff - biography, history, religious texts, etc.“
— Khushwant Singh Indian novelist and journalist 1915 - 2014
„The Bible is different from all other books; other books are written by man, but the Bible not only contains the sayings and commandments of God, but was also written entirely under divine inspiration. So we might say that it is God's book, which he gave to man to lead him to everlasting life.“
— Matta El Meskeen Egyptian monk 1919 - 2006
Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way
„When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.“
— L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919
Context: When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
„The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.“
— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924
Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99
Unsourced variant: I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
„The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.“
— William Golding British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1911 - 1993
As quoted in Novelists in Interview (1985) edited by John Haffenden
„(intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'.“
— Larry the Cable Guy American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist 1963
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„There is no such thing, wrote Oscar Wilde, as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Presumably, then, Mein Kampf would have been all right had it been better written.“
— Theodore Dalrymple English doctor and writer 1949
Trash, Violence, and Versace: But Is It Art? http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_1_urbanities-trash.html (Winter 1998).
„The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.“
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. United States Supreme Court justice 1841 - 1935
„A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.“
— Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing
„The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
