Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them…

When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw…

— Pankaj Mishra

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

— Zadie Smith

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts

“The question is not what the writer meant, but what he conveyed to those who heard or read.”

— Clement Gatley

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

“A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there…

— Christopher Morley

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I…

— Italo Calvino

“as [ale] is the liquor of modern historians,..., it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be…

— Henry Fielding

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

— C. S. Lewis

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither…

— Lewis Carroll

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use…

— Lewis Carroll

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

— Lewis Carroll

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

— Ernest Gaines

There are times when I can't stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that…

— Rae Earl