Books Quote by Mark Twain

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

— Tina Brown

“Unfinished works of great Authors are a triumph not a tragedy, it shows they gave us their all till the end”

— A.C. Quinn

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to…

— Candice Millard

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

I have the best fans of any author in the country and they deserve the best from me, too!

— Homer Hickam

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong…

— Himmilicious

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst