When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.