Accidents Quote by Walter Pater

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.'…

— Dick Van Dyke

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

— Seth Godin

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare…

— Robert Musil

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

— Lionel Shriver

“Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not…

— Amy Elizabeth Smith

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

— Annie Dillard

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to see. Always…

— Curly