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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~~ Anthony Burgess
 
“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ~~ Marcus Aurelius
 
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they carry off a few things they can use, soil and confound the rest, and revile all ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.  ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There is creative reading as well as creative writing ~~ Emerson


 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. ~~ Kingsley Amis

 

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

 

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.  ~~ Harold Acton

 

Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.  ~~T.S. Eliot

 

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.  ~~Don Marquis

 

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.  ~~Juvenal

 

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. ~~ Samuel Johnson

 

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.  ~~ Truman Capote

 

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.  ~~ English Professor

 

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers.  My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.  There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.  ~~ Flannery O'Connor

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