Book Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Conscious Good book People Wiser
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
