Desire Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

— Samuel Johnson

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is…

— Confucius

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection…

— Charles Bukowski

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a…

— Edna Ferber

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

— Catherine Gaskin

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

— Francis Chan

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

— Dean Koontz

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

— Karin Slaughter

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak