Good Book Quotes

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

It's a very good historical book about history.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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 a good book than go out and party.

My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.