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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Pouring, Mixtures

  Laurence Sterne (1767). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.3

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• There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Smell, Feelings

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• It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Writing, Long

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Careers, Self

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Dark, Way

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 30, 2015

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• If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Reading, Fifteen

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.77, Small Beer Press

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• I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Reading, Book, Mind

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.12, Dial Press

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• What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Reading, Long

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.157, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Book, Forever

  "Let’s Stop Talking About Maya Angelou" by Jeff Steinmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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• After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

  Robert Benchley

  Book, Years, Comedy

  "Love Conquers All".

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• Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

  Julie Burchill

  Art, Book, Looks

  The Spectator, January 16, 1992.

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• I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, “Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.”

  Jimmy Carter

  Book, Home, Sunday

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Thinking, Radio

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Sick, Joy

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Political, Enlightenment

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Progress, Superstitions

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