Book Quote by Sarah Josepha Hale

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

— Henry Miller

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

— Malcolm Lowry

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality…

— Deborah Reber

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the…

— Horace

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write…

— Deb Caletti

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

— Philip Guedalla

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds…

— Christopher Bollen