Good Book Quotes

336 quotes by 271 authors

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. — Jim Bishop
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is… — Allan Bloom
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them… — Anthony Bourdain
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men… — Oswald Chambers
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — John Milton
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the… — Henry David Thoreau
...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think… — George W. Bush
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However… — Mark Twain
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if… — Ernest L. Boyer
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest. — Eleanor Roosevelt
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably… — Saul Bellow
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce… — Charles Caleb Colton
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson

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