“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.” — Chris Brady Copy Share Image
“A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking… — Brenda Walker 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
“What use is a good book...if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another?” — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to… — Paul Beatty 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
“Then there are the books that shine in my memory, milestones along the horizontal course of my life. I remember not just… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard… — James A. Owen 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
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
“An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Don't lose incredible opportunities due to fear or rage; there's no reason to close a good book, when we can instead just… — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
“It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“What I will say is that you have to exercise your writing muscle. Write every day. Get better at it. Read a… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
