Frases célebres en inglés Literatura

“I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.”
Bill Hirst

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas

“I have read your book and much like it.”
Moses Hadas

“This book fills a much-needed gap.”
Moses Hadas

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
Ambrose Bierce

“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.”
Flannery O’Connor

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
Groucho Marx

“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”
Oliver Herford

“Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.”
Wilson Mizner

“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
Nora Joyce to her husband James

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
T.S. Eliot

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”
Henry Louis Mecken

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Tom Stoppard

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
Mark Twain

“There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
Flannery O’Connor

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valery

“A man is known by the books he reads.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
Harriet Martineau

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s exactly the opposite.”
Paul Dirac