When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

The author, as a rule, dearly loves every line of his work, from the first stroke down to the dotlet on the i, and certainly has a right to it. – Gustav Boehm, “A Discourse on Title Page Composition,” in The Inland Printer (Ch

With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894