Book Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Criticism Firsts Merit Next Praise
“He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and participating. He should not be afraid of reading too much or too little. He should take his reading as he does his food or his exercise. The good reader will gravitate to the good books. He… — Henry Miller Copy Share
You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than… — Rebecca Caudill Copy Share Image
When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
