When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Quote by Flannery O Connor

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I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to...

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to...

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop...

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop...

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection...

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection...

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming...

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming...

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into...

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into...

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is...

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but...

Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings...

Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings...

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.

No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and...

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and...

My Book and Heart Must never part

My Book and Heart Must never part

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double. . .

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double. . .

He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor,...

He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor,...

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while...

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while...

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while...

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while...

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link...

We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link...