Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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What an astonishing thing a book is.

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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.

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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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