Bed Quote by Anne Lamott

“a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's…

— E.J. Copperman

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

— Alain de Botton

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't…

— Anonymous

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

“A bad book begins and ends with the words on the pages. A good book gives you the feeling that it began long before…

— R. Lee Smith quoting her mother

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of…

— Anonymous

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

— Ali Smith

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to…

— Nick Hornby

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or…

— Christopher Morley

“The essential criterion for running a bookstore is less "Do you like books?" than "Do you like people?" Ironically, we find that having unlimited…

— Wendy Welch