Books Quote by Willis Regier Download Open image “Cunning authors cut to be quoted.” — Willis Regier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cunning Cutting
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“The forms of direct-half-hidden and completely hidden quoting were endlessly varied, as were the forms for framing quotations by a context, forms of intonational… — Mikhail Bakthin Copy Share Image
“Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.” — Caron Kamps Widden Copy Share Image
And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes. — Steve Carlton Copy Share Image
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The fool spoke precisely as he wrote, in convoluted paragraphs that any worthwhile editor would want to set on fire.” — Eliot Grayson Copy Share Image
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep. — Willis Regier 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
