Books Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Coins Dear Gold coins Grow Old Grows
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger Copy Share Image
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of… — Marcel Benabou Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
