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“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all…

— Dan Simmons

“But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed came issuing…

— Charles Dickens

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to…

— Jon McGregor

I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general…

— Clyde Edgerton

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth…

— Diane Setterfield

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little…

— James Fenton

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had…

— Groucho Marx

“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out…

— Patton Oswalt

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

— V. S. Naipaul