Quotes by Gibbon, Edward

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my e >>

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. >>

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than >>

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy pie >>

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function >>

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Gibbon, Edward