Book Quote by Philip Guedalla

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

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

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual…

— Daniel Handler

“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

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

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

— Mary Roach

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

— Boris Karloff

“They say the content and the cover are the most important things when it comes to a book or a novel, right? I totally…

— Jimmy Tudeski

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

— Walter Kaufmann