Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.Quote by Ambrose Bierce about homeland, name
If you want to become a writer, dear reader, open the core and pull out from inkholder the universe.Quote by Tudor Arghezi about literature, writers
I am not a scholar, I've never learnt to write, but only to read from your palms.Quote by IonuČ› Caragea about word
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, praise, literature, respect, people
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.Quote by William Faulkner about literature
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.Quote by Oprah Winfrey about books, age, olderness, world
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.Quote by Robert Frost about literature, writers
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.Quote by Jean Anouilh about life, books, history, things
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions.Quote by Ernesto Sabato about literature, dream, workers, heads
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about literature, poetry, poets, people
Let all the learned say what they can, 'Tis ready money makes the man.Quote by William Somervile about opinion, money, man
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.Quote by Leon Uris about literature, writing
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.Quote by Edna Ferber about literature, writers
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.Quote by Antonin Artaud about poetry, poets
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about literature, writing
Beauty sat with me all the summer day, Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, Love in her train stood ready for his prey.Quote by Robert Bridges about poetry, trains, beauty, day, love