Books Quote by David John Richards

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

“Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.”

— Alfa H

“I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Writing an unwritten thing, read the unreadable.”

— Aslam D. Maysar

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana