[https://web.archive.org/web/20051123233012/http://texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog5/Saltlick/hsinhsinming.htm The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Robert B. Clarke]

Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

[http://www.spiritsite.com/writing/thihan/ SpiritSight.com - Excerpts from selected Thich Nhat Hanh books]

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Theophrastus of Eresus... wrote a book On Winds and on Weather Signs, but like most other Greek philosophers, he was hardly the man to adopt patient and exact observation in place of dogmatic assertion and the teaching of authority.

[https://books.google.com/books?&as_auth=%22Nazrul+Islam+%28Kazi%29%22 Nazrul Islam, at Google Books]

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18[gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

To the late Chester I. Barnard I owe a special debt: first, for his book, Functions of the Executive, which exerted a major influence on my thinking about administration. Secondly, for the extremely careful critical review he gave the preliminary version of this book; and finally for his Foreword to the first edition.

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

[https://www.facebook.com/TheLegend.NFAK/ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Fan Page] at Facebook.com

The literary world must take a stand [to stop Bloomsbury publishing the book]. This is not about cancel culture. This is about defending literature from fascism. This is about standing up against religious divide, hate speech, islamophobia and false history.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Strange Meeting (book) by Susan Hill

[https://web.archive.org/web/20051124140305/http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog49/hsinhsinmingtranslations.htm Hsin Hsin Ming — side by side translations of Richard B. Clarke and D. T. Suzuki]