James Boswell Quotes about Writing
![I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/james-boswell/i-am-so-fond-of-tea-that-i-could-write-a-whole-dissertation-on-its-virtues-it-comforts-and-enlivens.jpg)
James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.43
James Boswell (1863). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.54
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.
James Boswell (1768). “An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli”, p.18
James Boswell (2002). “The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli”