Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted…

— Fran Lebowitz

Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to…

— Michel De Montaigne

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

— Francis Bacon

“Fame is a double-edged sword: It will make you gain status and popularity, but also lose motivation and creativity.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,…

— Thomas Fuller

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher…

— Roberto Bolano

So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame.…

— Moshe Kasher

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the…

— Emily Dickinson

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

— Mason Cooley

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

— Horace Greeley