Employed Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such a noble…

— Kyle Muntz

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The ancient pages rose among the others, palisaded with strange letters and words, the faint script hardly more readable than the footprints of birds.…

— Lawrence Norfolk

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

— Rick Riordan

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we…

— Henry David Thoreau

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon…

— Jacob Epstein