Books Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

— Aldous Huxley

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