Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next…

— Max Beerbohm

“Oscar Wilde said: 'Biography lends to death a new terror.' Well, memoir adds that same promise to parenting.”

— Anonymous

“There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

— Camille Paglia

“ [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all…

— Dorothy Parker

“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”

— Russell Lynes

“Celebrity’ is increasingly the only role the media can process,”

— Charlie Brooker

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

— Jack Kerouac

“there’s no such thing as bad publicity in the literary world.”

— Mark Pryor

“His genius had only begun to flower. This was only journalism, after all, a cup of tea on the way to his eventual triumph…

— Tom Wolfe

“The last remaining larger-than-life figure in American tabloid journalism.”

— Anonymous