Book Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Mind Psychology Reading Taught Writing
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
