Quotes of: Book-tour Keyword

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

The Library at Night

I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.

The Last Novel

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Learning to Pray

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Lover Unbound

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Letters of John Wesley

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

Leaders' Watchwords

I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

Little Women

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship --Toltec Wisdom Book

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

The Moon Coin

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

A Stranger in Mayfair

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

SPAN

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Something Rotten

A politician’s autobiography is a book that’s nothing more than a collection of paper, like toilet paper, only it’s stacked instead of rolled.  

Sleepwalking is restercise

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Sputnik Sweetheart

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

The Solitary Summer

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.

The Shadow Speaker

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

Shadow Spell

Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow