"An author who speaks about their own books is almost
as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."
Benjamin Disraeli.
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
TS Eliot.
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism;
if you steal from many, it's research."
Wilson Mizner.
"I am the kind of writer that people think other
people are reading."
VS Naipaul.
"My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty
days hath September' because it actually tells you something."
Groucho Marx (...more
Groucho Marx Quotes).
"A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk
bar."
Arthur Koestler.
"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a
lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
Adlai Stevenson.
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
Oscar Wilde (...more
Oscar Wilde Quotes).
"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when
I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
Virginia Woolf.
"I never read the life of any important person
without discovering that he knew more and could do more
than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
JB Priestley.
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