"Books belong to their readers."

--

John Green

#Book Quotes #Reader Quotes

“It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.”
“Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.”
“To my friends and people I care about, I'm a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.”
“No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.”
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
“To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.”
“Style means the right word. The rest matters little.”
“Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 585, 1895.

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