Best Good Book Sayings

336 Good Book quotes by 268 unique authors

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in… — Jane Kenyon
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. — Janet Street-Porter
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 like… — Jack Handey
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. — Henry David Thoreau
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this… — Henry David Thoreau
God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look,… — Curtis Jackson
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and… — Chris Raschka
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good… — David Quammen
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then,… — Jonathan Evison
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. — John Green
The best argument is an undeniably good book. — Saul Bellow
Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves. — Cassandra King
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a… — Anthony Doerr
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a… — Dorothea Benton Frank
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper
Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. — Ernest Dimnet
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and… — Henry David Thoreau
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you,… — Deb Caletti
Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book. — Dolly Parton
Good books are the warehouses of ideas. — H.G. Wells
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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