“The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's ...” — Andre Maurois Quote

“The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.”

“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”

“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”

“The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.”

“If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.”

“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”