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"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." Marcel Proust 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter." Marcel Proust 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." Mark Twain 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press." Mark Twain 4.833333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use." Mark Twain 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." Martin Luther King Jr. 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?" Matthew Clayfield 1.5625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Journalism is literature in a hurry." Matthew Arnold 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'" Nachman of Bratslav 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." Napoleon Bonaparte 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity." Napoleon Bonaparte 4.384615384615385 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." Oliver Wendell Holmes 3.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it." Oscar Wilde 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written." Oscar Wilde 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose." Oscar Wilde 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." Ring Lardner 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Robert Frost 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader." Robert Frost 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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