Books Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Effort Hard work Pleasure Writing Written
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. — Enrique Jardiel Poncela Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
