Books Quote by Gore Vidal

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will…

— Anonymous

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop…

— Will Rogers

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in…

— Robert Musil

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken…

— Anthony Holden

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller