“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I pray regularly, exercise, spend quality time with my loved ones, stay near and spend time with nature, walk on the beach,… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“The demand for good bookkeepers is at an all time high as more people make the leap into self-employment each year and… — Sylvia Jaumann Copy Share Image
“Activities are more likely to be rewarding if they are out of the house, involve other people, and require physical activity. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific is a copy of The Forsyte Saga I heaved overboard one afternoon. I very quickly… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the… — Stephen Amidon Copy Share Image
“In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“A Book “Now” - said a good book unto me - “Open my pages and you shall see Jewels of wisdom and… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image