Book Quote by A. A. Milne

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them.…

— Dave Barry

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

— Carolyn Hart

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some…

— Martin Luther

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized,…

— Steve Almond

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not…

— Ayn Rand

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

— Michael Lewis