Book Quotes

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

Sally Schneider

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Henry David Thoreau

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Mark Twain

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norias

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

Abraham Cowley

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Enthusiasm is achieved chiefly by means of provocations. In these cases, something inside of us resonates vibrantly with something outside. / The form of the provocationbe it book, music, sporting event, conversationmatters insofar as it might help to us find these sources of resonance.

Carson Cistulli

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

Thomas Carlyle

The book deals with being an honorable person in a dishonest world. The Fencing Master does not sell himself. That's his tragedy, and that is also his strength and his glory.

Arturo Perez Reverte

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

Marvin Mitchelson

A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.

James Branch Cabell

Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

James Branch Cabell

Civilized people depend too much on man-made pages. I turn to the Great Spirit's book which is the whole of his creation.

Tatanga Mani

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

Lois McMaster Bujold
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