New Books Quotes

• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dream, Time, Lying

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Book, Reading

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

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• The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

  John Alfred Langford

  Book, Reading, Apology

  John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”

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• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1775)

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• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

  Andrew Lang

  Book, Years, Faces

  Andrew Lang (1892). “The Library”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Important, Looks

  "Alan Lightman Interview". Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.

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• I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.

  T.C. Boyle

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

  Studs Terkel

  Book, Doctors, Mind

  Studs Terkel (2014). “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith”, p.26, New Press, The

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• I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Book, Blessing, Thinking

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• [A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Book, Important, Identity

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• Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Thinking, Space

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• I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Book, Making Love, Way

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• New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

  Mort Sahl

  Book, Want, Fbi

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2011

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• We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.

  Hank Stuever

  Mother, Couple, Book

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

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• There is a new book out about Hillary Clinton that claims Bill is still having affairs but Hillary continues to look the other way. The only problem is when Hillary does look the other way Bill's having sex with a women over there too.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Book, Doe

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• There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Firsts, Opening

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change. I have developed a very high regard for Bob in the years that I have known him. He has been a terrific and leading voice in combatting the scare mongering that we have all been subjected to on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• Your word determines your day, who you are, where you are and where you are bound. You are headed somewhere and God in you wants to stand up. Here's another thought: The key to manifestation is focussing your attention powerfully and persistently on what you desire. All of this is out of my new book: The Laws of Thinking.

  E. Bernard Jordan

  Book, Thinking, Keys

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

  Meg Tilly

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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