Book Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

— Peter Duncan

“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Writing is a passion. Nurture it. Fame is incidental.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

— Francis Bacon

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”

— Dennis Kimbro

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light

— Sallust

“Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck…

— Samuel Johnson