Books Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

— Georges Simenon

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are…

— E. M. Delafield

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

— Bruce Feiler

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its…

— Laura Kinsale

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So…

— Terry Pratchett

“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend…

— Will Schwalbe