Book Quote by Clay Shirky Download Open image ““the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it”” — Clay Shirky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“The only way to really know whether or not you will like a book, is to read it.” — John Campedelli Copy Share Image
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.” — Chris Brady Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.” — Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first… — Siobhan Curham Copy Share Image
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing to do… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
