Book Quote by Joseph Addison

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.

— Ravi Subramanian

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

— William Golding

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland