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“[Bastian] didn't like books in which dull, cranky writers describe humdrum events in the very humdrum lives of humdrum people. Reality gave him enough…

— Michael Ende

“ http://www.momentmag.com/book-review-... Martin Indyk's review about Begin's biography”

— Avi Shilon

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and…

— Neil Postman

“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)”

— June Ahern

“In 1956 a series of books, articles, pamphlets, and other documents relating to Bérenger Saunière and the enigma of Rennes-le-Chateau began to appear in…

— Michael Baigent

“The first five chapters of the Autobiography were composed in England in 1771, continued in 1784-5, and again in 1788, at which date he…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The thousand copies of the first edition published in May 1852, priced at fourteen shillings apiece, sold out quickly. Roget felt immense pride when…

— Joshua Kendall

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never…

— Leslie Fiedler

This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can…

— Wilbur Smith

“Following the popular success of The Pickwick Papers, there was a great demand for anything ‘Pickwickian’ and soon many plagiarised reproductions and theatrical adaptations…

— Charles Dickens

“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate…

— John Leonard

“My publishers, two Catalan brothers with an inherited income, took me out to lunch to inform me that the first print run would be…

— Francine Prose