“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”–Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert on Reading
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Category Archives: Quotes
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Gaskell!
English writer Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29th September 1810:
1832 miniature of Elizabeth Gaskell by William John Thomson
- KNOWN FOR: Mary Barton; North and South; Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story; Cranford; The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Fran Lebowitz on Life
Fran Lebowitz Quote
Sidney Lumet on Good Work
Sidney Lumet Quote
Henry Beston on the Earth as Poetry
“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.”–Henry Beston
Philip Roth on the Best Readers
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”–Philip Roth
Tom Wolfe on the Problem with Fiction
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.”–Tom Wolfe
John Cheever on Usefulness
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”–John Cheever
Edmund Wilson on Reading
“No two persons ever read the same book.”–Edmund Wilson
(Still a favorite quote of mine.)
Mary Shelley on Chaos
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”–Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)Shelley
