Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Writing
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.
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In whatever he has written he has affected something which has been intended to strike his readers as uncommon and therefore grand. Because he has been bright and a man of genius, he has carried his object as regards the young. He has struck them with astonishment and aroused in their imagination ideas of a world more glorious, more rich, more witty, more enterprising, than their own. But the glory has been the glory of pasteboard, and the wealth has been a wealth of tinsel. The wit has been the wit of hairdressers, and the enterprise has been the enterprise of mountebanks.