Books Quote by C.S. Dixon

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it,…

— Charles Finch

“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the book in…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

— Bill Nighy

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

— Jim Gaffigan

“Remember this: a simple pen is much more swift and much more precise than a camera. That's my advice to both beginning and experienced…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

— Colum McCann

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about…

— Terry Pratchett