Book Quote by Jacques Pauw

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in…

— Jonathan Barnes

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it…

— Twain, Mark

“(You wouldn’t be reading this book if I hadn’t convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)”

— Susan Cain

“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an…

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of…

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

“I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece of her…

— Amy Matayo

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller