Book Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

— Jean De La Bruyere

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

— Umberto Eco

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy…

— Matthew Reilly

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

— Navya Nair

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles…

— Carl Sagan

Text books are just intelligence written down in a boring way; hands on activities are intelligence at work

— Mung-Hua Shen

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

— V. S. Naipaul