'In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I… — Rosalyn D'Mello Copy Share Image
“A good book, Marcus, is judged not by it's last words but by the cumulative effect of all the words that have… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into,… — Ann Sutherland Copy Share Image
“Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was… — Eve Marie Mont Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“The attention for bad literature is symptomatic: they pretends its the most normal thing in the world to fill an entire newspaper… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Some pastors are lazy and no good” by Martin Luther “Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They rely on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“We all hygger: gathered around a table for a shared meal or beside a fire on a dark night, when we sit… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“It’s a stereotype,” he hissed. “It’s a damn stereotype and it’s harmful. If this catches on, we’ll have all sorts of sorcerers… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Besides, she was always the type to dig in, to nest. What made Rose happiest was sitting in a comfy armchair on… — Fiona Davis Copy Share Image
“We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
“My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject.… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker Copy Share Image
“Have you ever made the world stand still before?" "What does that mean?" "It means making a conscious decision to leave the… — Albert Espinosa Copy Share Image
“Well, you mind your manners and don’t raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“During the conversation she [7th-GGM, Anna Maria Hoepflinger Floerl] also talked about the guidance with which God had provided her when they… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
Even though we're not even in The middle of The year yet, I can say 2012 has been everything I've hoped it… — Eric Jacob Copy Share Image
“Dallas pointed out to me once that there is a world of difference between being busy and being hurried. Being busy is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image