Good Books Quotes
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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
— Christopher Paolini
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
— Guillaume Musso
Sleep is good. Books are better.
— George R R Martin
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
As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.
— David S.E. Zapanta
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
— Dorothy Parker
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
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him
— John Steinbeck
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
Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men.
— Erika Johansen
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
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Winston S. Churchill
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
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
— Anthony Minghella
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
I can't fall asleep at night when reading a good book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
— Monique Roffey
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
— Vera Nazarian
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
— Ramakrishna
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
— Patrick DeWitt
Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Real readers re-read good books.
— Darrell Bain
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
— John Baxter
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
— Sara Sheridan
The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.
— Stephen Richards
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
— Cornelia Funke
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
Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.
— Charles F. Glassman
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
— George Plimpton
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
— John Quincy Adams
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
— Shannon Hale
I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change. — Megan Whalen Turner
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
— Alain De Botton
Good books makes good life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
— Alex Pareene
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
— Dennis Lehane
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Sad stories make good books
— Khaled Hosseini
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
— Nelson Mandela
Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.
— Rachel Caine
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
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
— Sarah Van Arsdale
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
— Mark Twain
Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.
— J.R. Moehringer
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
— Scott Westerfeld
Read good books to improve your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.
— Wallace Stevens
Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.
— James A. Owen
Before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.
— Virginia Woolf
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
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 dreams are better than films or books.
— Alison Goldfrapp
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
— Anne Lamott
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.
— Kaaron Warren
