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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

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

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

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish. — Craig Brown

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault. — C.S. Lewis

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

Sometimes it's hard to wait for good things to happen. - Tia Isa — Meg Medina

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

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

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

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

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

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. — Neil Gaiman

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

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book. — LeVar Burton

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

Books, bringing people together.' That would make a good slogan for the library. — Kasie West

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

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books. — Glenn Danzig

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

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. — Ernest Dimnet

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

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. — E. Nesbit

My fondness for good books was my salvation. — S. Tsow

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

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

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

You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives. — Kevin Henkes

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