Authors No One Reads Quotes

#1. A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

Uma Nnenna

#2. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moment

Patrick Modiano

#3. So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

Abdellah Taia

#4. Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

Linus Torvalds

#5. Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Albert Einstein

#6. And so they couldn't have known exactly how despicable a lie it was when the president told the news media later that week that nobody could have predicted the levee breaks.

Tom Piazza

#7. As water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads.

John Trapp

#8. Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Lauren Bacall

#9. I tell myself it does not matter what one reads
favorite authors, particular themes
as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Helen Simonson

#10. In the first few years, it was at least plausible to come in in the morning and read all the Usenet traffic that had come in, and 15 minutes later be off doing something useful.

Henry Spencer

#11. Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.

Jakob Bohme

#12. Don't just discover . . . Encounter!

J.P. Osterman

#13. Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

Haile Selassie

#14. Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.

Amy Poehler

#15. All journeys begin in our minds and not on the road.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

Augusta Scattergood

#17. I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want ... ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.

Robert Jordan

#18. I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Lemony Snicket

#19. When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Lorenz Hart