Books Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image ““All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.”” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Death
“You know,(in Life) everyone's an author, We need to read each other more and kindly respond.” — james francis Copy Share Image
“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their… — Leslie S. Klinger Copy Share Image
“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.” — Elizabeth Hernandez Copy Share Image
“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages… — Janae Mitchell Copy Share Image
“good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the… — Madelaine Standing Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne 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
