A barren superfluity of words.
Samuel Garth, Sir 

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Anonymous 

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton 

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson 

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery (1871-1945) 

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)  , on Shakespeare

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler 

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.
Montesquieu 

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)