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• There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender.

  Philip Guedalla

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• No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader.

  Robert Frost

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• Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

  George Meredith

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• Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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• Make’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait.

  Charles Reade

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• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

  W. H. Auden

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• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  Charles Darwin

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• I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It’s endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

  William Stafford

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• I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

  William Stafford

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• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

  Henry Kissinger

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• Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Dr. Johnson’s sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

  Henry Herbert

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• Begin with another’s to end with your own.

  Baltasar Gracián

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• Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

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• I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

  Rudyard Kipling

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