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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

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him. — Mike Tyson

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

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

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

Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality. — Steffan Piper

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

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

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

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse. — Paul Acampora

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. — Fiore Dei Liberi

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