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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis. — Markus Zusak

Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes. — Hans H Wellisch

CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe. — Jen Campbell

You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price. — Amy Clipston

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. — Becca Fitzpatrick

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. — K. Lamb

I like how a book feels when I turn the pages, and how the ink smells - almost like something good to eat. — Sharon M. Draper

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book. — Christopher Morley

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story. — Chris Van Allsburg

As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn't "Is this a good book?" but "Is this really the story I want to spend my time on? — Rachel Aaron

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin. — Charlotte Rampling

Who learns most from a good book is the author. — Jose Bergamin

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. — Rick Yancey

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life. — Josh Lanyon

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of. — Umberto Eco

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age. — Thiruvalluvar

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How To Read This Book
If you're reading this sentence then you've pretty much got it. Good job. Just keep going the way you are. — Demetri Martin

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book. — Connie Willis

A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover. — Anonymous

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

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book. — George Eliot

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

i love the book called the princess plot and its a good book because its about how its mysterys from other peeps... — Kristen Boie

The Vanishing Chip — Is

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

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

Whatever." I shrug. "It's good, I guess, but if given the choice, I'd still pick, like, a Kristen Ashley book any day of the week. — Julie Johnson

[Pliny the Elder] used to say that no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it. — Pliny The Younger

Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level of insects. — Paul Jury

Isn't it nice to sit down with a good book and take the phone off the hook — Michael W. Clune

Alrighty then. Hell of a reunion," Breccan said, separating Gage and Darius. "So, a welcome hug is outta the question. Good to know. — Madison Thorne Grey

In a good book the best is between the lines. — Swedish Proverb

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice. — Deyth Banger

I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good. — Elin Hilderbrand

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. — Katherine Paterson

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

I'd curl up with a good romance book with my current book boyfriend and pretend the real world didn't exist for a little while. — Jen McLaughlin

Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast,
it's no good living in the fucking past. — Mark Jackman

Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book. — Michael Lewis

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. — Paul Sweeney

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you. — Stephen Richards

Why doesn't the Good Book say honor thy children, Grandpa, why doesn't it? — V.C. Andrews

Read the book: All the good people go. Only monsters remain. — Jonathan Friesen

The truth is ladies ... Good men are an endangered specie. So if you have a good man dont shuffle your KING for a JOKER. — Crystal Evans

You have to believe, in the deepest part of your soul, that it is a good thing for readers to buy and read your book. — Tim Grahl

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain De Botton

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

There are only two kinds of books
good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. — Edward Abbey

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together. — Raj Singh

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. — Amy Summers

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. — Kathleen Norris

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey

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

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. — Anynomous

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing. — Mac Barnett

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. — John Bosco

She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right. — Sarah Mayberry

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again. — Rick Bragg

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

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

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. — Joe Ryan

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

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

How do I know a really good book? When, between the pages, I come undone. — Marcia Whyte

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

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

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book. — Pete Sampras

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry

Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years. — Jonathan Rice

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. — Abraham Lincoln

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. — L.M. Montgomery

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

Reading a good book is like being able to dream while you're awake. The best part is knowing you can re-enter that dream, whenever you wish. — J.Z. Bingham

I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids. — Shaun Tan

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

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book. — Charles Caleb Colton

The Book of Mormon is so good it makes me f**king angry. — Jon Stewart

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. — Seneca The Younger

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. — Richard P. Feynman

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind. — Bruno Bettelheim

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

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not. — Melanie Crowder

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. — Serina Hartwell

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book. — Natalie Imbruglia

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

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices. — Stacie Hammond