The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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