Books Quote by James J. Corbett

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

— Pliny the Elder

“She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind. But she who…

— David O. McKay

“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make…

— Pliny the Elder

“An author owes a duty to the truth.”

— Walter Moers

“If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He…

— Lynn Dove

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph.…

— Walter Benjamin

“There is this quality esteemed within every good writer. She knows…she knows that truth must be un-sheltered within every human transition phase or stable…

— Dew Platt

“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing”

— Carl Henegan

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

“I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see,…

— Terri F. Williams