I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel. — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book,… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“i love the book called the princess plot and its a good book because its about how its mysterys from other peeps...” — Kristen Boie Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
“One of the richest pleasures I know of is being housebound because of the wild winter weather outside. With your family about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Think about what you have to share that could be of some value to people. Share a handy tip you've discovered while… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the… — Jennifer Donnelly 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
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life," said Simone de Beauvoir. "I want to be a woman and to be… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it… — Harry Treadaway 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 Washington; T. 8vo Copy Share Image
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I'm no crazier than anyone else. I love life the same as most people - what else have we got that's real?… — Michael Jarvis Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.” — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
“Love is not a formality or an obligation to fullfill to be in good books, but a sheer appreciation without expectations” — Bhavna Khemlani Copy Share Image
“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.” — Scott Corbett 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
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green Copy Share Image
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
“Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together… — Rabbi Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
There's a great feeling of relief when finishing a good book, but also a sadness. You get to know the characters so… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold… — Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
