Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope
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- In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. – Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- …but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. – Renee Ruin
- You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three – Michael Connelly
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- I write because my imagination won’t let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I’ve written. – Mary M Lund
- My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink. – Hester Lucy Stanhope
- If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit – Doug Stanhope
- Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing. – Doug Stanhope
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
- I read old poems I wrote. They were all about you. – Sheen Francis Reyes
- Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- I haven’t even read everything I wrote. – Karl Barth
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton
- A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives? – Michael Gruber
- Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age. – Ben Johnson
- Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. – AS Byatt
- You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
- He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
- Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
- You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. – Tina Fey
- Let me show you how beautiful life is,Let me take away all your pain;Let me rekindle your faith in love,Let me make you believe in magic again! – Anamika Mishra
- To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much,let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much. – Debasish Mridha
- Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love. – Debasish Mridha
- Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Let my heart fall into your life. Let my heart fall into your hand. Let it fall, let it fall – my heart to your heart. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
- I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t. – Philip Hensher
- Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire
- We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
- I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde