Book Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

— Kenneth Oppel

“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

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

— Sarah Fielding

“The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore”

— Boris Karloff

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

— Anonymous