“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Italo Calvino44
Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923–1985Related quotes
“The less I know, the better I feel about a person or book.”
Larry King (1933) American television and radio host
On why he did not read a book before interviewing its author. <br class="br"> The Radio 'King': From Midnight to Dawn https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19810104&id=7DBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792,4986335, Toledo Blade, Jan. 4, 1981.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Source: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3
Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters
The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix
“No two persons ever read the same book.”
Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters
“This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.”
Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky
Author's note, revised edition (1992).
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
