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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… — 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… — Anthony Bourdain
• 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… — Mark Twain
• 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… — Ernest L. Boyer
• With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the… — Richard North Patterson
• There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams
• I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey
• A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the… — Justin Winsor
• The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros

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