“Books are a finer world within the world.” — Alexander Smith Quote

“Books are a finer world within the world.”

“Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.”

“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”

“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”

“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.”

“I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.”

“The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.”

“I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.”

“I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'”

“I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.”

“On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They would send you a cardboard box full of seeds; kids would sell them door-to-door in the neighborhood and then pick from a catalog of prizes. I bought myself a watch that way.”