Good book Quotes · Page 20

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through…

— Mark Twain

“Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level…

— Paul Jury

“He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book”

— Anonymous

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.”

— Joe Queenan

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm…

— Cherie Lunghi

“[...]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is…

— Kathryn Lindskoog

“Somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific is a copy of The Forsyte Saga I heaved overboard one afternoon. I very quickly…

— MacDonald Harris

You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more…

— James Ellroy

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a…

— Alan Lightman

And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other,…

— Pete Dexter

In any creative process, the hardest thing is putting the pen to paper. You walk around the room staring at a blank…

— Nav

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and…

— Kim Alexis

“I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway…

— Marigold Wellington

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware…

— Wendy Lesser

“She touched his arm. “If you need anything, send word. It’ll be a few weeks before we reach Orynth, but—I suppose with…

— Sarah J. Maas

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of…

— Lisa Jewell

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Then there are the books that shine in my memory, milestones along the horizontal course of my life. I remember not just…

— Hugh Laurie

I believe that being on that show [the Voice] and getting the exposure opened the door for me to get my name…

— Curtis Grimes

“You teach the reader that he’s way smarter than he thought he was. I think one of the insidious lessons about TV…

— David Foster Wallace

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.”

— Serina Hartwell

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good…

— Jim Bishop

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all…

— Zadie Smith

“I wanted to stop peeing but couldn't, of course. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard…

— John Green

“The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is…

— Derek Thompson

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

— Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“a dozen...chocolate chip cookies...a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.”

— Adriana Trigiani

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.”

— Abid Hussain

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”

— Robert Byrne

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

— Deb Caletti

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

— David Levithan

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay