There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.” — Abid Hussain Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.” — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life is like a good book; There is bound to be typos and errors in it, but the only ones that noticed… — Gillian Duce Copy Share Image
I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
“Of course anyone who loves books buys more of them than she or he can hope to read in a lifetime. A… — Boilerplate Rino Copy Share Image
“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“So,” he said after a minute. “I was thinking that afterward if you’re up for it, we could check out the post… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
I'll always be reading a good book. I don't have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Nora, I believe life’s like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life… — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning 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
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“The mandarins of culture—what do they do to teach the common folk to read? It's no good writing down lists of books… — Christopher Moley Copy Share Image
“My goofiest-sounding secret is that I also believe in magic. Sometimes I call it God and sometimes I call it light, and… — Tavi Gevinson 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
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 book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.” — Sydney 4363 Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I’m thirty-four years old and prefer to sit at home with a good book than go out and party.” — Susan Stoker Copy Share Image
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and… — Tawni O'Dell 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… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. — John Milton Copy Share Image
You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
