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| A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. | | G. C. Lichtenberg | | |
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| A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read. | | Mark Twain | | |
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| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | | |
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| A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. | | Gustave Flaubert | | |
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| A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. | | Edmond Jules Goncourt | | |
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| Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. | | P. J. O'Rourke | | |
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| An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. | | Paul Valéry | | |
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| Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. | | Jorge Luis Borges | | |
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| Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. | | Voltaire | | |
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| Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. | | Unknown | | |
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| Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. | | Frank Zappa | | |
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| Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. | | Samuel Johnson | | |
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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up. | | Pablo Picasso | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. | | Mark Twain | | |
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| I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances -- the curtains were up. | | Groucho Marx | | |
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| I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. | | Mark Twain | | |
