Books Quote by Evariste Galois Download Open image “An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.” — Evariste Galois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Damage Difficulty Doe Reader
“If the author shows no tears while writing their tale, neither will the person who reads it.” — P.l.n Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not… — Evariste Galois Copy Share Image
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at… — Evariste Galois Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
