“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
Albert Einstein
“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”
Carlos Fuentes
“I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot”
Mark Twain
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I got a few books on tourist attractions, and I studied a National Art Museum book. I saw some of the real paintings. It's neat to see the real-life paintings up close.”
Caroline Leland
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water”
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