Books Quote by Anonymous

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

“The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work...Those…

— C.S. Lewis

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew

“When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the…

— Sarah Arthur

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects;…

— Samuel Johnson

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he…

— Paul Valery

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with…

— Ciaran Carson

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer