There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar.… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Happiness, for me, has to be real - life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends,… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.… — Henry David Thoreau 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
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you… — Nahisha McCoy Copy Share Image
“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life,… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser 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
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
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“GOOD shouldn’t be used to describe a girl in any way. There are good books, good food, but not good girls.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Often when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got… — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
