Book Quotes - Page 72

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

Never trust anybody with only one book.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

I will say I am the sum of my books.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.