Reading and Writing Quotes

You should never judge a book by its cover. Nor should you judge it by its first chapter. – Anon

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. – Kenneth Tynan

Critics are eunuchs at a gang-bang. – George Burns

Language is a virus from outer space. – William S. Burroughs

You can taste a word. – Pearl Bailey

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her. – Ada Leverson

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. – Anon

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognise the quotations. – Orson Welles

With my library card I am rich. – Loretta Jordan

The coming year will bring you many pencils. – Fortune Cookie

Writing is not hard. Just get pen and paper and write what occurs to you. The writing is easy; it’s the occurring that’s hard. – Stephen Leacock

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private, and wash your hands afterwards. – Robert Heinlein

Writing is easy. All you do is stare a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. – Gene Fowler

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. – Gunter Grass

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea what you going to say. – Francoise Sagan

I can't start writing until I have a closing line. – Joseph Heller

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. – Anthony Burgess

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me. – Anatole France

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the olds ones. – Joseph Joubert

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Sir Richard Steele

A house without books is like a room without windows. – Horace Mann

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. – James Fallows

Fill you paper with the breathings of your heart. – William Wordsworth

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. – Josh Billings

All poets are mad. – Robert Burton

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know 'til he takes up the pen to write. – William Makepeace Thackeray

A drop of ink may make a million think. – Anon

Tell your nice mummies and daddies to buy this book for you and hit them until they do. – Spike Milligan

The last thing one finds out when constructing a work is what to put first. – Blaise Pascal

How to Raise Your IQ by Eating Gifted Children. – Lewis B, Frumkes, book title

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, can he name a kitten. – Samuel Butler

Words make love with one another. – Andre Breton

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – G. K. Chesterton

Poetry is to prose what dancing is to writing. – Kenneth C. Steven

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books; they are knowledge, they are a future and they are a past. – Esther Meynall

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. – Dodie Smith

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. – Ayelet Waldman

Some day I hope to write a book where the royalties pay for the copies I give away. – Clarence Dallow

Writer’s write. We have no choice. If we don’t, we’re miserable. And if we do, we’re miserable too. – David Armstrong

God is the perfect poet. – Robert Browning

Some day you will grow old enough to start reading fairytales again. – C. S. Lewis

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. – Logan Pearsall Smith

One word at a time. – Henry David Thoreau

I have a great idea for a novel, but all the good titles are taken! – Snoopy

Sometimes when an author can’t think of anything to write, he’ll fall asleep at his typewriter. – Snoopy

This is the sixth book I’ve written, which isn't bad for a guy who’s only read two. – George Burns

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. – Patrick Dennis

An incinerator is a writer’s best friend. – Thornton Wilder

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and shut up in rooms where they stare at walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. – Meg Chittenden

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