Books Quote by Sloan Wilson Download Open image “A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.” — Sloan Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Grass Grow Long Man Read And Write Time Writing
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work. — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money. — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough. — Sloan Wilson 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
