Good Book Quotes
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.