Annoying Quote by Elmore Leonard

Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.

— Andrea Brown

I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in.

— John Grisham

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought…

— E. Nesbit

The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

— Harper Lee

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

— Anonymous

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because…

— James Frey

At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as…

— Saul Bass

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are…

— John Irving

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

— Philip Guedalla