Book Quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

— John Lone

With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my…

— Russell Freedman

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be…

— Kirk Cousins

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time…

— Robert Pyle

I choose such notes that love one another.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some…

— Maria Mitchell

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

— Franz Kafka

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing…

— Zadie Smith

I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery,…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great…

— Natalie Goldberg