Booklovers Convention Quotes & Sayings

Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don't know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they're always looking for something new. — William Zinsser

New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity. — Grenville Kleiser

Religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order. — Yuval Noah Harari

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist? — Edith Pearlman

He's pushing me, so I push him back.
His cross is rattling in my tongue and jaw. His pulse is beating in my throat. And his mouth is killing everything I'm trying to think.
Simon Snow. — Rainbow Rowell