A Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.
As I've become a professional, I just feel more pressure to produce, to score goals and get assists. I know I'm a good player, but it gives evidence of how good you are if you're able to look at how many passes you've made in a game or how many chances you create. It's in the books. It's become more about stats as I've become a professional.
If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.
One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.
We do not have to sit back and suffer the consequences of corrupt government deals and inefficiency, but unless a large number of people are convinced of this, nothing will change.
It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?” she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?” She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?” She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?
The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.
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