“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
Robert Benchley
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
Jerome K. Jerome
“It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
Daphne du Maurier
“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
Philip G. Hamerton
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?”
Delusions of Adequacy 