5 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Writing

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on writing

44. The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

54. An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

220. The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

237. When I want to read a novel, I write one.

263. 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.