Amusement Quote by Francois Rabelais

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as…

— John Heath-Stubbs

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur

“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway.”

— Margaret Atwood

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,”

— Truman Capote

“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I accept that…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to…

— Thomas Mann

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their…

— Leslie S. Klinger

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey