His Book Quotes
75 quotes by 71 authors
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
— Ben Jonson
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Dad is always hiding in his book.
— E L Doctorow
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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
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Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides…
— William G. Boykin
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
— Michael Lewis
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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
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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
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Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience…
— Yusef Lateef
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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
Who Wrote These His Book Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 75 His Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: