“It was a rude, brutal and purposely ugly book. However, it was an honest book.”

— Lima Barreto

Recordações do Escrivão Isaias Caminha (1909)

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Brazilian writer 1881–1922

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“The Bible is the most brutally honest book that does not whitewash or sugarcoat history.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“An honest book is almost as good as a friend.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Spin

Source: Spin (2005), p. 261

“If thou need money, get it in an honest way—by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 25

“A book is like a man — clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

On Publishing
Writers at Work (1977)
Context: A book is like a man — clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.