Books Quote by Richard Whately

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers…

— Isabel Allende

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”

— Saru Singhal

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer