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Quote DB :: Authors :: Charles Caleb Colton :: View Quote View Quote "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Charles Caleb Colton Listed in: Reading, Writing Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 3.67  Rate Quote 3 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." "None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them." "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." "If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." Top 5 quotes from Reading, Writing "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." "Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man." "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." "If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

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