Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself. Walt Whitman View this quote
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself. Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
If you’re smarter than me, you shouldn’t be reading my books. Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Cicero
Cicero
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. Confucius
Confucius
I’m famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they’re finished. Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook. Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books. David Copperfield
David Copperfield
After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
