Books Quote by Mark R. Trost

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you want to…

— Alice Hoffman

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”

— Edward Abbey

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis

“Why just read the writing? Write the reading!”

— Jesse B. Booth

“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”

— Henning Mankell

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“The problem with writing, is that it doesn't leave you time to read. ”

— Corey Salter