The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I… — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but… — Jeff Greenwald Copy Share Image
“A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Once, there was nothing but shadows. An entire world made only of darkness, absent of all light. One day, so it is… — Ashlee Nicole Bye Copy Share Image
“Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on an insignificant basis of reality the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“ What appears most disquieting to me in isolation is the dilemma of how to use time. There is either too much… — Jeremy Reed Copy Share Image
“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Abur buruienile-l ridica, nu e planset, cerul se preface." (Indiferenta tarziului)” — Cristian Niculcea Copy Share Image
“...I’m never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?” — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Death, like fiction, is brutal in its symmetry. Take this story and strip it down -all the way back- until you are… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
