Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of… — Chris Raschka Copy Share Image
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life," said Simone de Beauvoir. "I want to be a woman and to be… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
Well, you know what's wrong with the world today? People done gone and put their Bible's away. They're living by the law… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“When we think of the masterpieces that nobody praised and nobody read, back there in the past, we feel an impatient superiority… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“An awfulness was deep inside me, and I couldn't fight it; forced into submission and taken hostage by it, I could only… — Nick Miller Copy Share Image
“Loving Sarah was like reading a particularly good book. That pressing and overwhelming need to just devour it as fast as possible… — Nadine Rose Larter Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Multiple Copy Share Image
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember,… — Susan Allen Toth 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… — Anonymous 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
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It has been said that when we pray, we speak to God; when we read, He speaks to us. Keeping this in… — William A. Carroll Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
“a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something… — E.J. Copperman Copy Share Image
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It's not good for me to run away from honest opinions. I can't let that block my writing. Otherwise, I'll never learn… — Hideyuki Kurata Copy Share Image
Those who make accusations & then say but dont mention MY name! have something to hide. They are either liars, troublemakers, deceivers,… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
Ah, 'Kismet,' or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
That's cool your dutghaer likes to write. My dutghaer wants to be a scientist. She likes to read when she finds books… — Nany Copy Share Image
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into… — Anthony Doerr 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
I think of tomorrow going shopping, hanging out with good friends and family and then I thought to myself if people find… — Maureen Renfro 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
Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the… — Flann O'Brien 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
“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them… — Sally Murphy Copy Share Image
