Artist Quote by Zadie Smith

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

— Charles Caleb Colton

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“To a question about what books to read, Munger replied that he is a biography nut and heartily recommended biographies as a way to…

— Daniel Pecaut

“There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes ; Sully's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be…

— Edmund White

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta