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I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden… — John Flavel
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get… — Anne Lamott
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about… — Dani Shapiro
I think really good books can be read by anybody. — Norton Juster
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk… — Glenn Close
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not… — Lord Chesterfield
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are… — Patricia Briggs
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a… — Jo Nesbo
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry… — Laini Taylor
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime… — Maj Sjowall
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have… — Stacy Schiff
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. — Thomas Sydenham
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. — Frank Shorter
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life… — Theodore L. Cuyler
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind's eye the… — Richard Chenevix Trench
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed… — Jane Jacobs
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right. — Christopher Hampton
Who learns most from a good book is the author. — Jose Bergamin
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read… — Jacqueline Emerson
Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says. — Neil Young
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning,… — Dorothy Fields
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things. — Seth Grahame-Smith

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