Book Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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

— 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

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

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Andrea Brown

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

— Claire Messud

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

— Bruce Feiler

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look…

— Margery Allingham

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is a bad…

— Joe Rigney

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

— A. A. Milne