Authorship Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

— Orson Scott Card

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

— Edward Gibbon

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf

“Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail…

— Martin Luther

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

The devil is the author of Lies, refuse to read his book!

— Anonymous

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.”

— J.A. Konrath

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

— Salman Rushdie

“No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of…

— Nwaocha Ogechukwu

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in…

— Salman Rushdie