#books

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#inspirational #inspirational-books #motivational-quotes #inspirational

If you haven't cried atleast once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#writing #inspirational

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. ↗

— René Descartes

#reading #men

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. ↗

— James Rollins

#books #i #time #two #writer

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#reading-books #time #writing-inspiration #inspirational

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#fiction #reading #inspirational

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature. ↗

— Anne Holm

#children #inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#books #cartoons #cats #chocolate #frozen-yogurt

But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language. ↗

— Pierre Boulle

#books #imitation #language #theme #writing

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#men