Best thousand & book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”

Thinking Want Giving Feels Writing Book Millions Reader Thousand Pressure Tempted Good Book Replicate

Author:Jo Nesbo

“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.”

People Knows Want Writing Trying Years Humans Heart Has Beens Book Natural Secret Thousand Preserves Contribution Thousand Years Human Heart Natural History

Author:August Strindberg

“Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door”

Heart Book Three Morning Doors College Thousand Appreciate Rivers Copies Classroom Thrill Good Book April Georgia Dean

Book:Hawaii: A Novel

Source: Hawaii: A Novel

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.”

Years Persons Book Might Young Artist Rooms Education Four Thousand Four Years Blank Blank Canvas

Author:Robert Genn

“Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.”

Men Years Book Motivational Today Earth Left Alive Thousand Yesterday Thinker Thousand Years Great Thinkers

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.”

Men World Book Return Thousand

Author:Jonathan Swift

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.”

Book Running Night Felt Morning Sun Feet Cold Thousand Six Hundred Lays Miles Evening Hills Farms Early Morning Restful Equator

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.”

Thinking Knows World Needs May Book Use Would Be Able Beautiful House Focus One Day Thousand Standards Buying Load Collectors Buckets Snapshots Beautiful Images

Author:Ransom Riggs

“I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Stills Book Might Written Thousand Lucky Sells Copies Print Rejected Enchanted

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male-dominated fields.”

World Book Ideas Play Fields Reader Thousand Sells Males Feminist Spread Chess Titles Copies Fewer

Author:Jennifer Shahade

“I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.”

“People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.”

People Way Years Book Language Growing Up Growing Century Dying New York Thousand Thousand Years 20th Century Provinces Marrying Our Town

Book:Our town: a play in three acts

Source: Our town: a play in three acts

“If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.”

Ifs Years Book Waiting Thousand Six Hundred Contemplating Thousand Years

Author:Johannes Kepler

“It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.”

People Thinking Feels Children Has Beens Book Feelings Hurt Brain Five Thousand Twenties Copies Surprising Stolen Twenty Five Unsuccessful Infamy

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.”

Source: Mansfield Park Volume I [Easyread Comfort Edition]

“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”

Feels Stills Book Ideas Character Reading Given Judging Reader Easier Thousand Pages Faults Generosity Nails Book Reading

Author:Fay Weldon

“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.”

Book Written Sacrifice Tree Thousand Hundred Brave Deeds Miles Desert Squares Great Book

Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.”

Writing Years Book Rooms Numbers Half Millions Novel Figures Couple Thousand Paper Computer Hundred Pens Occupation Solitary

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.”

People Wells Book Faces Numbers Nice Thousand Six Seven Lists Planes Best Things Interviews Hotel Signing Sellers Sushi Best Sellers

Author:Neil Gaiman

“[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”

Source: One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics)

“Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.”

Thinking World Should Writing Believe Book Ideas Individual Religious Atheism Thousand Ten Dear Positive Atheism Publishing Reformation Sects Religious Sects

Book:Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

Source: Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

“After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.”

Years Believe Book Found I Believe Answers Mistake Tree Planets Healthy Offers Thousand Diets Balanced Balanced Life Pears Healthy Happy

Author:Marilu Henner

“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.”

Men Years Doe Book Hands Tree Youth Thousand Benefits Understood Hundred Mercy Prepared Fruit Be Prepared Assured Exalted

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!”

“There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.”

World Book Different Helping Seems Pain Wise Bears Thousand Misery Clinic Psychiatric

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.”

Men Book War Lost Century He Man Thousand Pages Men And Women Saved Quotations Motto Maxims Collectors Quip

Author:Willis Regier

“Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.”

Years Two Book Views Known Five Generations Teaching Masters Thousand Glory Hundred Years Ago Lifetime Followers Dedicated Scorn Handful Future Generation

Author:Confucius

“I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.”

Book Next Impossible Written Couple Thousand Library Written Word

Author:Tim Gunn

“Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.”

Thinking Firsts Book Humor Funny Brain Doors Drug Thousand Ten Perception Critics Melting Huxley Doors Of Perception

Author:Bill Bailey

“Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.”

Way Looks Littles Book Different Might Happens Individual Decision Thousand Conscience Intrigued Esoteric Oddities

Author:John Hodgman

“Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth”

Ifs Wells May Book Mistake Thousand Falsehood

Book:Journals

Source: Journals

“Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.”

Giving Has Beens Two Book Hands Causes Sky Subjects Thousand Bird Hundred Treated Feathers Eighty Illustration Astonishment

Book:An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

Source: An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

“The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.”

Way Writing Littles Book Ends Next Bits Morning Thousand Little Bit Editing Edits

Author:Walter Mosley

“I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.”

Years Book Individual Bits Pieces Reader Thousand Diligent Bits And Pieces

Author:Dan Chaon

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.”

Writing Mean Book Thousand Finished Spite

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.”

Want Two Book Thousand Hundred Clubs Fifty Old Lady Book Club

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.”

People Giving Looks Kind Book Light Mother Night Son Wall Fool Cold Thousand Gun Prison Ships Desert Flash Sail Moses Muzzle Points Of Light Prison Walls

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.”

World Book Sometimes Home Reading Strange Thousand Sitting Miles Ships Airplane Thousand Miles

Author:Gilbert Highet

“I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.”

Thinking Years Book Lasts Religious Produce Thousand Thousand Years Topics Chewing Religious Experience

Author:Reza Aslan

“Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.”

Ifs Thinking Writing May Made Book Light Would Be Choices Special One Day Thousand Hundred Light Up

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.”

Book Helping Faces Spiritual Hero Thousand Help Me Heroic Exploring

Author:Viola Davis

“I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.”

Knows Two Book Next Novel Written Thousand

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.”

People Writing Book Five Thousand Paraguay

Author:John Gimlette

“I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.”

Knows Writing Has Beens Stills Two Book Thousand Pages Seven

Author:William Golding

“There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.”

People Feels Writing Book Stories Fall Thousand Pages Argument Exciting Passionate Fantastic Volume Advertisements Rise And Fall Memos Mayer

Author:Karina Longworth

“[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.”

Book Film Sun Thousand Unique Runners Splendid Kites Film And Music Thousand Splendid Suns

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.”

Years Book Ends Done Novel Sun Effects Thousand Splendid Sabbatical Thousand Splendid Suns

Author:Khaled Hosseini

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