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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
— Jodi Picoult
For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
— Christopher Morley
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
— Chris Van Allsburg
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
— Anatole Broyard
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
— Charlotte Rampling
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
— Jose Bergamin
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
— Rick Yancey
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life. — Josh Lanyon
Yeah, that was the life. — Josh Lanyon
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
— Umberto Eco
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
— Thiruvalluvar
When I want to travel I don't need an airplane, train, or bike. Just give me a comfortable seat, a cup of tea, and a really good book.
— Unknown
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
— Dorothy Parker
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
i love the book called the princess plot and its a good book because its about how its mysterys from other peeps...
— Kristen Boie
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!
— Erin Duffy
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton
I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.
— William T. Vollmann
Whatever." I shrug. "It's good, I guess, but if given the choice, I'd still pick, like, a Kristen Ashley book any day of the week.
— Julie Johnson
Isn't it nice to sit down with a good book and take the phone off the hook
— Michael W. Clune
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
— Holbrook Jackson
Alrighty then. Hell of a reunion," Breccan said, separating Gage and Darius. "So, a welcome hug is outta the question. Good to know.
— Madison Thorne Grey
In a good book the best is between the lines.
— Swedish Proverb
Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
— David Benioff
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sometimes you have no idea what you are you doing, but you just do it anyways. And that can be a good thing
— Anita Babic
A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as one can be in this very trying world.
— Warren Lewis
You live several lives while reading [a good book].
— William Styron
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
— Mark Haddon
Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.
— Bruno Bettelheim
I can't fall asleep at night when reading a good book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
— Lord Chesterfield
Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
— Cecil Castellucci
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
— Vera Nazarian
Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.
— Serina Hartwell
Everyone who is 12 and reads a book has a good chance to get 13 or even 70 and read it again
— Burkhard Spinnen
. . . everywhere a good and a bad book
— Thomas Carlyle
Maybe you're not such a monster, Mr Zombie. I mean, anyone who appreciates a good beer is at least halfway okay in my book.
— Isaac Marion
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
— Louisa May Alcott
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
— Robert Byrne
The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.
— Stephen Richards
Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.
— Katherine Paterson
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.
— Julia Glass
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
— Alain De Botton
The truth is ladies ... Good men are an endangered specie. So if you have a good man dont shuffle your KING for a JOKER.
— Crystal Evans
You have to believe, in the deepest part of your soul, that it is a good thing for readers to buy and read your book.
— Tim Grahl
There is no better adviser than a good book.
— Debasish Mridha
I get really excited when I plan some time alone with a good book
— Steven Aitchison
Discovery a good book is like finding a great treasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
— John Quincy Adams
If you find a good book, read it
— Derek Miller
I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change. — Megan Whalen Turner
I don't think they get less good because times change. — Megan Whalen Turner
One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years.
— Jonathan Rice
Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.
— Dav Pilkey
I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.
— Shaun Tan
To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
— Ellie Rose McKee
Who needs sleep when you have a good book?
— Elizabeth Ann Patterson
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.
— Diane Setterfield
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book.
— Michael Lewis
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
There is nothing like a good negative review to sell a book.
— Hugh Barbour
It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.
— Tove Jansson
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
— Richard Baxter
When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
— Natalie Imbruglia
I'd enjoy a good book before watching a movie.
— Catherine Bybee
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
— Richard P. Feynman
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
— Gayle King
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
— Joe Ryan
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
— John Baxter
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
— Amanda Hocking
Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. — Pseudonymous Bosch
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. — Pseudonymous Bosch
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
— Paul Sweeney
A good beginning means a good book.
— John Blaine
Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.
— Deyth Banger
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
— L.M. Montgomery
wanted is a good action book
— Caroline B. Cooney
We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together.
— Raj Singh