A Quote by Philip Guedalla

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

Philip Guedalla

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Philip Guedalla
English - Historian
March 12, 1889 - December 16, 1944

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

Kenneth Oppel

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

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.

Anne Bronte

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

James Rollins

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Stacy Aumonier

Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

Austin Phelps

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.