A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.