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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
— Alain De Botton
Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.
— Annie Barrows
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
— Wilferd Peterson
Read books. They are good for us.
— Natalie Goldberg
This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.
— Jacob Bacharach
... because commonsensically speaking, a room full of good books had to better for your health than a room with no books in it at all.
— Susan Branch
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
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
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
— Alain De Botton
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
Good books are for consideration after, too.
— Stephen King
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.
— F. Haywood Glenn
I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
— David Foster Wallace
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
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.
— Ron McLarty
So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.
— Denis Markell
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
— Lauren Weisberger
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
A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably
— Kamala Suraiyya Das
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
Here's to the good nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
— Robert Anton Wilson
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
— David McCullough
Not every woman you meet falls for your good looks"He folded his arms across his chest and raised an eyebrow. "So you think I look good? — Cindy Roland Anderson
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
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
— W. H. Auden
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— Rick Riordan
For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
— Francis Bacon
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
— Maya Angelou
You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.
— Helen Macdonald
At books, or work, or healthy play,Let all my years be passed;
That I may give for every day
A good account at last. — Isaac Watts
I love books, by the way, more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
— Karen Marie Moning
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
If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.
— Kaaron Warren
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
— Hannah More
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
— George Crabbe
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
— George Plimpton
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
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
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
— Anne Lamott
We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.
— Ron Brackin
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
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
— Kevin Smokler
Dreams are a good source for book ideas.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
— Deana J. Driver
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
If a father buys his child toffees instead of books for school, it may make for a happy child. But does it make a good father?
— Chetan Bhagat
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
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!
— Nanette L. Avery
Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not.
— Mortimer J. Adler
He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
Thus proving that books can teach you much, if only to give you a good name for a devilish, smart goat.
— Terry Pratchett
A love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have,
— Louisa May Alcott
You Never Have a Second Chance for a First Good Impression
— Doris-Maria Heilmann