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  • For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Wise Quotes , Book Quotes
  • We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes
  • I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sorry Quotes , Book Quotes
  • Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gollner Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes