It’s all too easy for your eye to see what it wants to see, instead of what’s actually there.

Johnson ran out of space, and had to omit about half the quotations he had collected. Words in the first part of the alphabet were much more fully illustrated.

Bram Stoker numbered among his friends the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, who called Dracula ‘the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years’.

Blank page syndrome often occurs when life is already stressful.