Quotes on Writers Reading

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.