
„One man is as good as another until he has written a book.“
— Benjamin Jowett Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817 - 1893
— Benjamin Jowett Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817 - 1893
— Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
July 21, 1763, p. 126
— Khushwant Singh Indian novelist and journalist 1915 - 2014
— Matta El Meskeen Egyptian monk 1919 - 2006
Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way
— 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
— 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.
— 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
— Larry the Cable Guy American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist 1963
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— 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).
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. United States Supreme Court justice 1841 - 1935
— Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms