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It was here I usually retired to banquet on my novels
~ Washington Irving
He was himself a great reader of old legends and romances, and often lamented that he could not believe in them; for a superstitious person, he thought, must live in a kind of fairyland.
~ Washington Irving
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~ brutum fulmen.
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.
~ Washington Irving
I seek truth in a book and not the subject.
~ Waslav Nijinsky
Poetry can be written only because it has been written.
~ Wendell Berry
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
~ Wendy Cope
People are not merely the product of a zeitgeist; Shakespeare is not just an Elizabethan writer.
~ Wendy Doniger
The Guptas' use of Sanskrit and patronage of Sanskrit literature also contributed to the Euro-American identification of their age as classical.
~ Wendy Doniger
Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often.
~ Wendy Doniger
By virtue of the literary work over which they meet, the reader and the writer both begin to loosen their hold on selfhood.
~ Wendy Lesser
She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.
~ Wendy Wax
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
~ Wendy Wax
She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.
~ Wendy Wax
When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I'll allow you to criticize.
~ Wendy Wax
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
~ Wendy Wax
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
~ Wentworth Miller
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
~ Werner Herzog