Books Quote by Charles Dickens

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to…

— Eric Diehl

“Following the popular success of The Pickwick Papers, there was a great demand for anything ‘Pickwickian’ and soon many plagiarised reproductions and theatrical adaptations…

— Charles Dickens

“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.”

— A. Saleh

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I…

— Sai Marie Johnson

“I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I…

— Doris Lessing

“I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my…

— L.M. Fields

“And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the…

— John Boyne

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley