Book Quote by German Proverb Download Open image “A good book praises itself” — German Proverb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Good book
“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
