“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
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 had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a… — Stuart Brent 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 first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger… — Rebecca Caudill Copy Share Image
Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi 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
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“What Louisa wants for Christmas, Get kissed Find some good books make peace between prior best friends convince the polite world of… — Theresa Romain Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside… — William Boyd 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
“IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single reader in proximity to a good bookstore, must be in want of a… — Sherri Erwin 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.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Good books, like good food, are meant to be savored and digested slowly overtime - Konnrad” — Konnrad Copy Share Image
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine,… — Ron McLarty Copy Share Image
I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
