Jean de la Bruyere Book Quotations

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.