Books Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Locks Reader
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. — Adrianne Palicki Copy Share Image
“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London,… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To begin with, you must realize that the threatening letters were in the nature of a blind. They might have been lifted bodily out… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if… — Pamela Paul 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
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
![“[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.” quote by Susan Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e62/susan-mitchell-38003_atmosphere_on-writer-george-moore-i-grew-curious-ab_1758337.jpg)
