Robert Greene Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Perception, Wish

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• Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.

  Robert Greene

  New York, Book, Writing

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• I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

• The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't know if I'm going to have to look what's in store for me at that level but fortunately, I broke in earlier.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Looks, Levels

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• 50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Law, Together

• I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books, or I meet someone who tells me how it has changed their life. To me, that is much more real than sales figures.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Book, People

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

• One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.

  Robert Greene

  Clever, War, Book

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

• The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Ideas, Skins

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

• People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.

  Robert Greene

  Couple, Book, Fighting

  "Big Think Interview With Robert Greene". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. December 14, 2009.

• Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Reading, Adversity

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