New book quotes added 28 April, 2012
Clarify. Revise. Clarify. Revise. Clarify. Revise – the process of great book writing.
Robin Hoffman
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.
from The Bridge Across Forever, by Richard Bach
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
from There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone, by Hugh Prather
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship.
George Wald
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. They are the chosen possession of men.
Carlyle
The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
from Awaken the Giant Within, by Anthony Robbins
A good book should be an axe for the frozen sea within us.
Kafka
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