Clever Quote by John Heath-Stubbs

“how I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be stupid at…

— Michel de Montaigne

“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”

— Kurt Cobain

“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”

— Richard Smyth

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“I feel like writing is sometimes the only way I understand anything.”

— John Corey Whaley

“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.”

— John R. Erickson

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.”

— Kami Garcia

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“By reading can make you more clever”

— Herman Sahdi

“I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain…

— Laini Taylor

“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.”

— Jonathan Heatt