top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."
Standard
Customized
More
"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
Life
"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
Deception
"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
People
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"You must write to the people's expertise."
People
"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."
People
bottom of page