Books Quote by Walter J. Ong

“No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a…

— Denis Diderot

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

— Herman Wouk

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.

— Harold Bloom

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

— Harold Brodkey

“Life's no fun unless you read!”

— Avwedhorn

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

— William Trevor

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

— George Saunders

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a…

— Ayn Rand

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

— Mark Carwardine

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real…

— Clare Grogan

I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.

— Noel Fielding