Book Quotes - Page 39

• Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

  Les Brown

  Mistake, Creating, Giving

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• When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

  Adam Smith

  Reading, Grace, Amusement

  Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.14

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• Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

  Jessamyn West

  Feelings, Treasure

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• Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

  Bill Johnson

  Church, Today, Spirit

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• Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

  Robert Reed

  Reading, Farewell, Adults

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• I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

  N.J. Berrill

  Spring, Silent, Silent Spring

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• The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter.

  Melissa Walker

  Girl, Daughter, Real

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• They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

  Christopher Morley

  Library, Needs, May

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• It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

  Pam Brown

  Reading, Years, Giving

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Writing, Adventure, Thinking

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• All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

  Lu Xun

  Ideas, Tactics, Existential

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• If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Way, Needs

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

  William Joyce

  Kids, Math, Pieces

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• Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

  Mickey Spillane

  Writing, America, Guy

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• Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

  Bob Edwards

  Reading, Reading Books

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• I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

  Ken Thompson

  Ideas, Should, Biodiversity

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Reading, Thinking, Conformity

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

  James Wright

  Struggle, Writing, Ideas

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• The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

  Daniel Webster

  Religion, Doctrine, Moral

  Daniel Webster (1825). “An address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. ...”

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• Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

  Kathleen Norris

  Reading, Shining, Pages

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1955). “The Best of Kathleen Norris”, Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House, 1955 .

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• Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

  James Carroll

  Life Changing, Reading, Entering

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• In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reading, Details, Should

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

  William Everson

  Moving, Poetry, Tears

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• There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

  Pliny the Younger

  Mali, Profitable

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• There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Jobs, War

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