Great Literary Quotes

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a goodimpromptu speech.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None Thankyou for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
Author: Moses Hadas
Source: None Fromthe moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed withlaughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Author: GrouchoMarx
Source: None Theman who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot readthem.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None Avarice,envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
Author: DanteAlighieri
Source: None Thislife's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. Andleads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.
Author: WilliamBlake
Source: None 'Tisan old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters.From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silksand riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Author: Miguelde Cervantes
Source: None Oh,thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thouhast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew theeHal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little betterthan one of the wicked.
Author: WilliamShakespeare
Source: None Ifa man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears adifferent drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measuredor far away.
Author: HenryDavid Thoreau
Source: None Donot trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even thoughthey bring gifts.
Author: Virgil
Source: None Ohyou who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is thedescent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retraceyour steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
Author: Virgil
Source: None 'Thatis indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing tokill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
Author: FrancoisVoltaire
Source: None Aclassic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Author: ItaloCalvino
Source: None Allgreat deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works areoften born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Author: AlbertCamus
Source: None Ialways tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school butbecause my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so Icould see my name in the card catalog.
Author: SandraCisneros
Source: None Writingis manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Author: JohnGregory Dunne
Source: None Writingis like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make amud pie.
Author: JohnLeCarre
Source: None RiceKrispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Micheneras superior among junk writers.
Author: ChristopherLehmann
Source: None Thefact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something,perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable)to become a real estate agent.
Author: MariaLenhart
Source: None Webreathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
Author: ChristopherLehmann
Source: None Allautobiography is self-indulgent.
Author: DaphneDu Maurier
Source: None Ifyou do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or singin writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Author: Anais Nin
Source: None Ifyou're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writergets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Author: MickeySpillane
Source: None Thurberdid not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope,the way a mouse waltzes.
Author: E. B. White
Source: None Fillyour paper with the breathings of your heart.
Author: WilliamWordsworth
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