Books Quote by Malcolm Forbes Download Open image “If you can read and don't, you're dumb.” — Malcolm Forbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dumb Ifs Reading
Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read. — Jack Bickham Copy Share Image
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
