Appalled Quote by Sydney Schanberg

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

— Anonymous

“I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

— V. S. Pritchett

“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of…

— Hugh Howey

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him.…

— Sydney Schanberg

“Once the writer was at the deathbed of a fellow writer. What interested his dying colleague more than anything else was what was being…

— Peter Handke

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be…

— Kate Morton

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came…

— Anonymous

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“He was after a sensational story and this, of course, could not be constructed out of mere truth; not out of officially released truth,…

— Richard Adams

Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I…

— Bob Colacello

“That was the only tragic thing about books: they changed people. All except the truly evil, who did not become better fathers, nicer husbands,…

— Nina George