"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." - Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try." - Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable." - Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop." - Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
"The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." - Austin Phelps
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." - Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."- Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
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