Nonsense Quote by Alain Frogley

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you…

— Robert Penn Warren

“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That…

— Ken Follett

“You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem…

— Herman Melville

“I don't believe it pays to be a great author.”

— Jean Webster

“It’s every man for himself,” he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he’d been laid off from his…

— Jeffrey Ford

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“Someone who hasn't read a novel doesn't really know what it's about, William.”

— John Irving

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world and this…

— Susan Orlean

“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.”

— John Williams