There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) 

This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas (1900-1966)  , book reviewer

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
Dorothy Parker 

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean Jacques Rousseau 

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G. K. Chesterton 

Why don't you write books people can read?
Nora Joyce  , to her husband James