Books and reading - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4712<![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4688<![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4689<![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4690<![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691<![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4692<![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4693<![CDATA[To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4694<![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4695<![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4696<![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4697<![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698<![CDATA[Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4699<![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700<![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701<![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4702<![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703<![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4704<![CDATA[There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4705<![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4706<![CDATA[The words of the world want to make sentences. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4707<![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4708<![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4709<![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4710<![CDATA[By words the mind is winged. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4711<![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675<![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4676<![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4677<![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4678<![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4679<![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4680<![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681<![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4682<![CDATA[Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4683<![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684<![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4685<![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686<![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4687<![CDATA[The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4663<![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4664<![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4665<![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4666<![CDATA[When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4667<![CDATA[I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4668<![CDATA[A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4669<![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670<![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671<![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4672<![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4673<![CDATA[The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4674