Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and…
Quote by Robertson Davies
Topics:
Writers Quotes
Related Quotes
The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...
It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence...
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The...
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said,...
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...
The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things...
Eccentricities of genius.
