Quotes by Writers

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. Dr. Seuss

You Writing Problem Way Out Rate Attack Throw Main Mortality New Come Terrific Got Line Lines Verse New Way Your Figure Whole Away Right Four Fourth

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. Dr. Seuss

Politics Writing Political Too Much Drop Become Thinking Too Books Out Stay Cartoonist About Because Begin Children Again Much

Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols

Fear Highest Fence

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E. B. White

Politics Time Democracy People Half More Than Suspicion Right

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. E. B. White

Enemy Most Time-Consuming Things

Writing is hard work and bad for the health. E. B. White

Work Hard Work Health Writing Bad Hard

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. E. B. White

War Time Father Become Before Years Eighteen Dad

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. E. B. White

Good Man Sense Nothing More Nor Than Handy Farmer Less

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people. E. L. Konigsburg

Me People World Meet Books Take Over Know Liked Unusual Won Where Children After Places Them Files Medal

I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. Edward Said

Myself Believe Solution

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. Edwin Way Teale

Spider Beauty Telephone Plus Web Wires Between Difference Utility

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Edwin Way Teale

Life Needless Complexity Reduce Labors Wants Themselves

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. Edwin Way Teale

Death Nature Destruction Than Less

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. Elbert Hubbard

Death Sinning Die Stop Suddenly

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. Elbert Hubbard

Great Extraordinary Minds Great Minds Interested Little Commonplace Little Minds

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. Elbert Hubbard

Would Able Rather Am Than Things Appreciate

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard

Character Man Met Reputation Would Know His Many Street

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Elbert Hubbard

Pessimist Has-Been Been Optimist Person Acquainted Who

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. Elbert Hubbard

Love Hate Progress Men Oppose Inertia Reason

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. Elbert Hubbard

Freedom Every Tyrant Himself Who Lived Believed

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. Elbert Hubbard

You Woman Will Doubt Herself Everything Say Compliments Except

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. Elizabeth David

Everyday Possibility Miracle Holds