"The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."
-Walter Bagehot
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
-James Bryce
"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
-Irvin S. Cobb
"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
-Fran Lebowitz
"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."
-Montesquieu
