Top 29 Seth Books Quotes
#1. It was a long time ago. I was talking to a friend about astrology, and he mentioned the Seth books. I'd never heard of them, but I intuitively knew they were important to me. It sounds very romantic, but it really was like that. I took an interest in them right away for no reason.
Francis Dunnery
#2. I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
Seth Godin
#3. Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
Vikram Seth
#4. Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
Seth Godin
#5. Multiply that scenario by one hundred or one thousand books a year. Using permission, Amazon can fundamentally reconfigure the entire book industry, disintermediating and combining every step of the chain until there are only two: the writer and Amazon.
Seth Godin
#6. As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times
Sourav Ganguly
#7. If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination.
Seth King
#8. I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#10. I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
Vikram Seth
#11. On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth
#12. All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
Seth Godin
#13. Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.
Vikram Seth
#14. You first parents of the human race ... who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#15. Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
Seth Godin
#16. Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.
Eddie Griffin
#17. Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
Vikram Seth
#18. In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.
Vikram Seth
#19. Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?"
"Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. Understood what the books and the generals always repeated: that armies did not kill each other, they broke each other, that the day would be won when one army believed it could not survive. A matter of deception, of conviction, of lies made true through performance. Like everything else.
Seth Dickinson
#21. I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.
Seth
#22. Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms
Seth Godin
#23. And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
Vikram Seth
#24. I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Vikram Seth
#25. the founders concluded, if God himself does not violate the religious freedom of man, then surely government shouldn't either.
David Platt
#26. Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.
Shaun White
#27. Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
Vikram Seth
#28. Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
John Lewis
#29. It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
Seth Godin
