Book Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a…

— Robert Barr

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,

— S. S. Van Dine

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can…

— Scott Turow

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

— Albert Camus

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner