Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books and reading Brother Harper Reading Reading books Select Should
I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But see, publishers don’t actually know what readers want. They know what distributors want. Joe and Jane Smith? No clue. Barnes & Noble? Wal-Mart?… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung, into literacy.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau 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
