Book Quotes - Page 38

• I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

  Steven Wright

  Success, Writing, Pages

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• Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

  Alvin Lee

  World

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• Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

  Eric Burns

  Men, Hoe, Giving

  Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”

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• Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

  John Denham

  Reading, Use, Delight

  Sir John Denham (1719). “Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, a Tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, ...”, p.94

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• It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same things in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same.

  Robert Nathan

  Heart, Yesterday, Together

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• I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

  Richard Curtis

  Believe, Candor, Naive

  Richard Curtis (2003). “How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

  William Joyce

  Office, Littles, Firsts

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• First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

  Frank McCourt

  Responsibility, Creating, Challenges

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• I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

  Frank McCourt

  Thinking, Titles

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• One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

  William Goldman

  Littles, Way, Each Day

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• In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

  John Locke

  Writing, Successful, Target Audience

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• Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.

  Tim O'Brien

  Reading, Long, Waiting

  Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”, Broadway

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• They tell us the Book of Mormon states that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Ghost. I CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT. The Book of Mormon teaches NO SUCH THING! NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Jesus, Challenges, Doe

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

  Peter Abrahams

  Dream, Self, Standards Set

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• Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

  John Gay

  Learning, Oil, Midnight

  'Fables' (1727) introduction, l. 15.

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• Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spiritual, Race, Giving

  William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian Association (1855). “A selection from the works of William E. Channing”, p.430

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• What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

  Christopher Morley

  Helping, Virtue, Help Me

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• I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

  Hugh Grant

  Writing, Creativity, Creative

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• He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

  Pliny the Younger

  Gratitude, Might, Etc

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• The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

  Mike Carey

  World, Pages, Standing Out

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• An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

  Mike Carey

  Horror, Excellent, Premises

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• You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

  Roger Kahn

  Writing, Pride, Important

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• Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my favorite kind of hero--an alpha male angel determined to win the heart of his heroine, Lindsay, while protecting her from his lethal enemy. Lindsay is a gutsy, likable woman with paranormal abilities of her own, as well as a dedication to protecting humanity against a race of demonic monsters. This is definitely a book for your keeper shelf.

  Angela Knight

  Hero, Adventure, Angel

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• You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books.  Choose your friends wisely

  Matthew Kelly

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.135, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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