
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer
Source: Guide to Fiction Writing
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer
Source: Guide to Fiction Writing
“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”
Carl Van Doren (1885–1950) American biographer
As quoted in "Bermudian" (November 1950) by James Thurber
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist
Sermon (1899)
D. V. Gundappa (1887–1975) Indian writer
In biography of Gopal Krishna Gokhale in page=25
D.V. Gundappa,Sahitya Akademi
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
As quoted in Literature for Today's Young Adults (1997) by Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen, p. 392
Context: It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.