A Quote by Kenneth Oppel

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

Kenneth Oppel

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Kenneth Oppel
Canadian - Author
Born: August 31, 1967

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

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Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.

Margaret Atwood

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

Charles Spurgeon

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Ellen Glasgow

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Ambrose Bierce

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Christopher Hitchens

Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.