Top 100 Good Book Quotes
#1. Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
Jack Gantos
#2. A good book is not the same as a successful one.
Johnny Rich
#3. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
#4. A good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable
( from 'the luck of the word' )
Charles Bukowski
#5. Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.
Lemony Snicket
#6. For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.
Mitchell Zuckoff
#7. To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.
M.F. Moonzajer
#8. For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
Neil Gaiman
#9. It was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color.
Lincoln Peirce
#10. Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Michael Morpurgo
#11. Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.
Naomi Wood
#12. Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
#13. Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold
John Wilson
#15. A good book is a book you want to read all in one day but to last forever
Shelby Pontius
#16. Why doesn't the Good Book say honor thy children, Grandpa, why doesn't it?
V.C. Andrews
#17. 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.
J. Patrick Lewis
#18. I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. A good book is one that you simply cannot put down..!
Faas Kramer
#21. 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.
Richard Llewellyn
#22. Listen to those characters in your head ... sit down and just write a good book.
Timothy Pina
#23. 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.
Paul Cezanne
#24. 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.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#25. A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely. And there is old Herodotus, standing ready to regale me with tales of his travels.
Ashley Gardner
#27. I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
Stacy Schiff
#28. Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.
Mark Siegel
#29. What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
Theodore Parker
#30. Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
David Quammen
#31. I get really excited when I plan some time alone with a good book
Steven Aitchison
#32. There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
Stephen King
#35. 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.
Josh Lanyon
#36. I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
Donna Tartt
#37. One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.
Moby
#38. A good book will surely become an event in your life.
Aman Jassal
#39. God's love gives life meaning. I just follow the path He sets out in the Good Book. That's all I need to know. You follow His guidelines, it's almost like a map through life to Heaven. You don't ever gotta worry if you're making the right choices or not, 'cause it's all right there for you.
Wendy Mass
#40. She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day's wave of vanity had passed.
Tim Farrington
#41. When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend.
Min Kim
#42. Be kind and considerate with your criticism ... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Malcolm Cowley
#43. When I want to travel I don't need an airplane, train, or bike. Just give me a comfortable seat, a cup of tea, and a really good book.
Unknown
#44. Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#45. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.
Sully Tarnish
#46. And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.
John Milton
#47. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.
Nancy Atwell
#49. A great writer is a great writer ... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
Phil Klay
#50. a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.
E.J. Copperman
#51. Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
Richard P. Feynman
#53. I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.
Nancy Pearl
#54. Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment ... is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.
C.S. Lewis
#55. A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.
Phyllis Diller
#59. I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.
Megan Whalen Turner
#60. One of the richest pleasures I know of is being housebound because of the wild winter weather outside. With your family about you, a good book on your lap, a roaring fire in the stove, and a good hot dinner in prospect - you are richer than a millionaire.
Annette Jackson
#61. This is what makes me happy: ... Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
Art Buchwald
#63. When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
Natalie Imbruglia
#64. As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn't "Is this a good book?" but "Is this really the story I want to spend my time on?
Rachel Aaron
#65. All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book.
Michael Lewis
#68. A good book is an event in my life.
Stendhal
#69. I totally ignore the sheer number of bookshelves lining the far wall, even though I'm itching to explore them, because, well, as everyone knows, if the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the way to a girl's is through a good book.
Julie Johnson
#70. But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself
John Milton
#71. The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second.
Karen Joy Fowler
#72. After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
Unknown
#73. The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.
Cormac McCarthy
#74. A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.
Chris Brady
#76. Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
Bill Vaughan
#77. Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.
Ken Kalfus
#78. Getting lost in a good book affords the surest means of improving one's mind as well as fueling one's imagination with a sense of adventure. All the better if said book should happen to be of a romantic bent.
P.O. Dixon
#79. The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
Anderson Cooper
#80. Characters are the lifeblood of any
good book.
Craig Hart
#81. Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
C.S. Lewis
#82. If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
J.K. Rowling
#83. What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time.
J. Lynn
#84. A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.
Osamu Dazai
#86. Faint heart never won fair lady as the Good Book says.
L.M. Montgomery
#87. From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Mark Haddon
#88. Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#89. I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.
Terry Pratchett
#90. A good book can take you anywhere at anytime.
Me
#91. Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?
Michael Dobbs
#92. For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
Christopher Morley
#93. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.
Zander Sherman
#95. A good book is one of the best vacations one can ever take at a moments notice without leaving where they are.
Lynn
#96. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John Ruskin
#97. Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.
L.R. Knost
#99. But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.
Renata Bowers
#100. That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Louisa May Alcott
