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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

“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

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

— Kenneth Oppel

“Instead of these mild, oblique approaches, we must learn, in such cases, to be irenically direct.”

— Jay E. Adams

“I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in…

— Charles Dickens

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

— Charlotte Bronte

“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of…

— Pierre Bayard

“The cover, title, the name of the author, how the work starts, the name of characters all this is important information which should be…

— Deyth Banger

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of this book,…

— Jacques Pauw

“For me, the step from impotence to the power of the weak is more important than another transition that many of us attempt again…

— Dorothee Soelle

“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read. However,”

— Charles Van Doren