Books Quote by Anonymous

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

— Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

— Samuel Johnson

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

— Nick Laird

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

— Mike Svob

“If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the other hand,…

— Alexei Panshin

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

— Tom Schulman

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and…

— Robyn Hitchcock

“Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with…

— William Hazlitt

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to…

— Joan Didion

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as…

— William Faulkner

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of…

— Jamie Campbell Bower