Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves. — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book… — Amanda Hocking 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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
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
“A Bible not read is like a bulb not lighted. Only insane people will love to work in the darkness with Kings'… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't… — David Levithan 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
“Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“... physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there.… — Richard Brandt Copy Share Image
“Mr. Ram was a dedicated person—that means he didn’t let go of the things that were important to him. He was dedicated… — S.K. Ali Copy Share Image
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called "The Giving Tree." It was a really good book,… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“After all, that constant pressure to be something amazing, to be the next big thing, will be lifted off your back. The… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Badly drawn, badly written and badly printed - a strain on young eyes and young nervous systems - the effect of these… — Sterling North Copy Share Image
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image