Meat Quote by Kenneth Oppel

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

— Philip Guedalla

“Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing…

— E. Nesbit

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The irrepressible Preface”

— null

Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

— Elmore Leonard

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

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

— Horace

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

— Harper Lee

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

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

— Anonymous

“It is widely held among scholars that the Prologue is a preexisting poem that the author of John has incorporated into his work—possibly in…

— Bart D. Ehrman