Curious Quote by William Francis Henry King

“All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where…

— Anne Lamott

“Read while we're young”

— Rick Riordan

“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what a rich…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his…

— Hilary Mantel

“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this…

— Rudyard Kipling

“The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.”

— Carol Morgan

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other…

— Virginia Woolf