“I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“Some women remind you of a good book. Others remind you of a bad movie.” — Darnell Lamont Walker 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
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically. (Waterstones Trafalgar Square)” — Waterstones Copy Share Image
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music — that would… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
What I tell myself is that there is never going to be another 'Gone Girl' for me. I mean, I really believe… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day.… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb… — Kristen D. Randle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“And yet she didn't want to kill herself. She loved the world too much, and people. She loved taking long walks in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image