Books Quote by Paul Hendrickson

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”

— Joseph Heller

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind of that.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

“Reading does not make a man wise,it only makes him learned.”

— Anonymous

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans