Books Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

— Anonymous

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

— Anonymous

“Anyone who thinks life is boring hasn't lived”

— Fred Cooper

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing things that clever men have long known and stupid ones are not interested in;”

— Anton Chekhov

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley

“People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it,…

— Edward Abbey

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in…

— Philip Roth

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have the leisure…

— Haruki Murakami

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

— Anne Sexton

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan