Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
Patience is adherence to the ordinance of the Book (Quran) and the Sunnah.
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading.
The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it.
Following a path: reading a stretch of ground, deciphering a fragment of world.
He used to say that "no book was so bad but that some good might be got out of it."
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
They translate books of science and attribute authorship to their coreligionists.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Ibn Warraq's book will either be ignored with deadly thoroughness or cause an enormous riot.