Quite a few exceptional books begin with great epigraphs — an inspiring quote, a beautiful poem, a moving lyric, an iconic phrase — that'll ease you into the novel. Some books skip the epigraph while ...

The elusive art of the epigraph: some mislead us (the blatantly fabricated prelude to “The Great Gatsby”), others act as humorous disclaimers ("Huckleberry Finn" 's "persons attempting to find a ...

Rosemary Ahern set out to write “something that would be short and fun, and could submerge the reader in the world of books without the 30 hours it would take to reread Middlemarch" You can save this ...

"Never use epigraphs, they kill the mystery in the work!" (Adli) The above piece of epigraphic genius prefaces Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book – though we later learn that it's lifted from the writings ...

I have a pet theory about epigraphs. They're an author's reward to herself for years of labor and doubt occasionally relieved by feeble hope (otherwise known as writing a novel). What could be more ...