Books Written Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can… — Richard Wurmbrand
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. — David Foster Wallace
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are… — Scott McClanahan
Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a… — Frank Langella
Itâ€™s as much a writerâ€™s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will… — Ilya Ehrenburg
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after… — Sergey Brin
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is… — A J P Taylor
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz
There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but Â many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought Â a great deal… — Robert Twigger
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have… — Hisham Matar
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people. — Paramahansa Yogananda
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far… — Helen Fielding
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years,… — Mary MacLane
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the… — Leo Tolstoy
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… — Sam Harris
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But… — George Bernard Shaw
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be… — W G Sebald

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