Book Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before…

— James Otis

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby,…

— Maxwell Perkins

“He acquired more and more books, books being an acknowledged extravagance he could seldom curb. (With one London bookseller he had placed a standing…

— David McCullough

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them…

— G.K. Chesterton

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who had written it. I…

— Nathan Filer

But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs

— Anonymous

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

— Rebecca Wells

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

— Cilla Black

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

— Pierre Trudeau

“And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the…

— John Boyne