Best Good Book Quotations

336 Good Book quotes by 268 unique authors

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. — Thomas Carlyle
To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to… — Charlotte Mason
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater
A good book is an education of the heart. — Susan Sontag
Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a… — Nicholas Sparks
Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed… — Pat Conroy
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when… — Clifton Fadiman
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. — Ashley Montagu
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one. — Phyllis Diller
You live several lives while reading [a good book]. — William Styron
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C.S. Lewis
I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious. — Nikki Giovanni
You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots… — James Ellroy
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore -… — John Green
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER… — Groucho Marx
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. — John Ruskin
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. — Laura Bush
The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it. — Anderson Cooper
Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our… — Kelly Gallagher
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire,… — Diana Wynne Jones
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you… — Christopher Darden

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