“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep… — Morgan Freeman 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
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
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of… — Chris Raschka Copy Share Image
“If my life were a book, I would have masking tape holding my hinges together. My pages would be loose, my edges… — Kate Carlisle Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Multiple Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“When we think of the masterpieces that nobody praised and nobody read, back there in the past, we feel an impatient superiority… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
Well, you know what's wrong with the world today? People done gone and put their Bible's away. They're living by the law… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
“The TV Junkie lives his life for television. Like a religious nut, he follows everything that is going on in the media… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do. — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.” — David S.E. Zapanta Copy Share Image
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
“For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid you’re going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I’d buy a couple… — Mina Carter Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“What good is a book no-one can read, save for the paper?" He was lucky I'd had to let him live. If… — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler 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
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