The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. A.C. Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble. Robert Chambers Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. Benjamin Disraeli Books are the curse of the human race.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
A book that is shut is but a block. This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. A bad book is as much labour to write as a good one, is comes as sincerely from the author's soul. John Kieran I am a part of everything that I have read. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.