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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

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

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music. — Charles Darwin

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

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context. — Jesse Kellerman

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic. — Charles Bukowski

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

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

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget. — Lauren Hammond

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

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

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 real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo! — Lorraine Loria

I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any. — Emily Bronte

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk

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

Before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books. — Virginia Woolf

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

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

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. — Stephen R. Covey

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 good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. — John Baxter

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

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. — Avijeet Das

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

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

Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read? — Karen Marie Moning

Never regret losing time on reading good books — Kowtham Kumar K

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 do the same with my books ... Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject. — Betsy Cornwell

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day. — Rabih Alameddine

Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective. — Steve Jones Snr

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

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious. — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce. — Rick Riordan

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

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

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line. — Mark Twain

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. — Murray Pura

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. — Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism. — Maggie Young

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

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

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

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

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. — Tim Tharp

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think. — Chris Brady

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

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama

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

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

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

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen

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

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

Sad stories make good books — Khaled Hosseini