Related quotes
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
- Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
- I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.