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Wells Quotes by Mark Haddon
- If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that…
- Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to…
- Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
- Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong