#book

You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later, you wonder if it may not be all right after all. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#books #inspiration #writing #inspirational

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#philosophy-of-life #self-help-book #inspirational

Book is a detergent which cleans the dirt of ignorance and bad thoughts from our mind. Read books!, befriend books!! REMEMBER: Mind too is one kind of a book, develop the skill to read your own mind. All the book existing into this world has wander the mind of our great author before they came into existence. ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit ↗

— Stephen King

#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#men

work. play. passion. ↗

— Jim Clark

#facebook #friendship-and-love #will-to-live #women-s-strength #friendship

People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?" From the worst moments in my life. I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times. ↗

— Sandy Nathan

#inspirational #sandy-nathan #tales-from-earth-s-end #using-hard-timesideas-for-books #where-to-get-inspiration

I'm American to the core. So please forgive me if I say some foolish things when I'm overseas. It's my birthright." The Best Way--El Camino de Santiago (2012) ↗

— Bill Walker

#forgiveness

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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