I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience—or rather to become itself… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling… — Stephie Davis Copy Share Image
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“started reading a really good book by a new-to-me author who wrote alternate reality versions of Brontë novels and spent the next… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“If you do these things (read good books), what will be your reward? Gradually, unconsciously but inevitably, your diction will begin to… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Books were always my friends Last more than fifty years Books gave me dreams Dreams resulted in missions Books helped me confidently… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
“He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up… — Rusty Fischer Copy Share Image
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a… — Groucho Marx 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
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — Roger Ebert 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
“book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I… — Rosalyn D'Mello Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley 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
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway 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
'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
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
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no reason why good books should be lowered or lessened being rewritten to meet the demands of people who are… — Frances Clarke Sayers 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 am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn’t get good books out in New Mexico?” — Gregory Benford 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
“Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“love is a like a good book you can’t put down and you wish would never end. But with Infatuation and Lust,… — S.G. Browne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
