Good book Quotes · Page 11

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

— Vera Nazarian

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

— John Ruskin

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

— Madelaine Petsch

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

— John Green

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good…

— Moby

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths…

— Ben Hecht

I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That…

— Jenny Mollen

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as…

— Gary Barlow

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you…

— Anonymous

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one…

— Katy Lederer

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a…

— Elie Wiesel

Don't lose incredible opportunities due to fear or rage; there's no reason to close a good book, when we can instead just…

— Jamie Timbre

My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing…

— Tessa Virtue

This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and…

— Art Buchwald

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them…

— Anonymous

“No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all…

— Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual,…

— Charles F. Haanel

“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book…

— Joe Queenan

“While the stoning of children for heresy has fallen out of fashion in our country, you will not hear a moderate Christian…

— Sam Harris

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living…

— John Milton

“Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription…

— Mary Balogh

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

— George Bernard Shaw

“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

— Christopher Morley

“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

— William Styron

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have…

— Stuart Pearce

“Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.”

— Savannah Gostlin

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

— Kami Garcia

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

— Anonymous

“Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

— Karen Marie Moning

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.”

— Deyth Banger

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

— Mark Haddon

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

— C. S. Lewis

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

— Edward Abbey