His Book Quotes

75 quotes by 71 authors

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean… — Ravi Zacharias
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at… — Samuel Johnson
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and… — Renee O'Connor
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only… — Jaimy Gordon
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a… — Ayn Rand
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and… — Mitch Daniels
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was… — John Bunyan
Reader look, not on his picture but his book. — Ben Jonson
Dad is always hiding in his book. — E L Doctorow
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most… — Benjamin Tucker
Kevin Freeman has been warning Americaâ€™s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides… — William G. Boykin
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. — Michael Lewis
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private… — Mary Abigail Dodge
Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking… — Donald Miller
Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book â€˜Art as Experience,â€™ you canâ€™t separate experience… — Yusef Lateef
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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