Good Book Quotes
336 quotes by 271 authors
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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
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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
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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
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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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
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No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
— Ed Byrne
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A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
— Louis L'Amour
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
— John Milton
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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
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...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
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Good Book Quotes
271 authors contributed a total of 336 Good Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: