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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. — Alain De Botton

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. — Meg Rosoff

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end. — Chloe Thurlow

Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones. — Vikrmn

Read books. They are good for us. — Natalie Goldberg

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start. — Carole Nelson Douglas

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really. — Patti Smith

Sleep is good. Books are better. — George R R Martin

Good travel books are novels at heart. — Jonathan Raban

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it — William Meikle

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice. — Deb Baker

If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man — Mark Twain

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. — Lord Chesterfield

A dozen ... chocolate chip cookies ... a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in. — Adriana Trigiani

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. — Walter Bagehot

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker

all good books are bad! — Elinor Ostrom

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
— Carlos Fuentes

Good books are for consideration after, too. — Stephen King

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it. — Marilyn Manson

The show is good, but the books are better.
(The books are always better) — George R R Martin

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read. — Katherine Paterson

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. — Scott Corbett

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. — Julien Green

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you are good, they say you are weak. — Dejan Stojanovic

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. — Maj Sjowall

Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said. — Rick Riordan

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book? — Guy Kawasaki

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. — Neil Gaiman

Every day is a good day if we are reading a picture book. — Vivian Kirkfield

Good books are the real recorded source of good thoughts all times & every where !! — M K Gandhi

You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything. — Andrew Smith

All good books are honest books. — Ronald Malfi

Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort. — Louisa May Alcott

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children. — W. H. Auden

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating. — Jackie French

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five. — Haruki Murakami

There are an infinite number of good books, and only a finite amount of time in which to read them. — Victor A. Davis

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. — John Milton

Good books are never finished but abandoned. — Marc Alan Edelheit

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all. — John Burns

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books. — Ryan Blair

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books. — Martin Luther

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

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

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation, — Jim Trelease

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet. — Frank Zappa

If books are not good company, where shall I find it? — Mark Twain

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? — Idries Shah

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle

For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon

Good books are the warehouses of ideas. — H.G.Wells

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. — Hilary Mantel

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done. — Lily Cole

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything. — Charles Caleb Colton

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them. — Herman Wouk

Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. — Mortimer J. Adler

Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. — Ramakrishna

All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway,

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way. — Neil Gaiman

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs. — Anatole Broyard

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster

There are only two kinds of books
good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. — Edward Abbey

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food. — George Crabbe

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. — David Levithan

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. — Seneca The Younger

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story. — Roger Sutton

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory. — Rachel Nichols

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort. — Gordon B. Hinckley

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books. — Arthur Ransome

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps! — Swami Vivekananda

what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot

Good books, like good food, are meant to be savored and digested slowly overtime - Konnrad — Konnrad

All good books are about everything, abbreviated. — Andrew Smith

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves. — Remy De Gourmont

Dreams are a good source for book ideas. — Mary Sage Nguyen

Good dreams are better than films or books. — Alison Goldfrapp

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. — Deana J. Driver

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. — Hugo Chavez

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. — George R R Martin

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. — Rainer Maria Rilke