Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. ...If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)