Top 100 Quotes About A Good Book
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Oswald Chambers
#3. A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.
F. Haywood Glenn
#4. A good book should leave you ... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
#5. At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.
Jessie Cave
#8. I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.
Megan Whalen Turner
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
Natalie Imbruglia
#13. 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
#14. All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. 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
#17. A good book is an event in my life.
Stendhal
#18. 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
#19. But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself
John Milton
#20. 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
#21. After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
Unknown
#22. A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.
Chris Brady
#24. Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
Bill Vaughan
#25. 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
#26. The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
Anderson Cooper
#27. Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
C.S. Lewis
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.
Osamu Dazai
#31. I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.
Phyllis Diller
#32. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
Umberto Eco
#33. I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
Amish Tripathi
#34. That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Louisa May Alcott
#35. But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.
Renata Bowers
#36. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
Bill Watterson
#37. How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
Edward Abbey
#38. 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.
Susan Sontag
#39. I was just getting to the good bit when I heard the sound of his footsteps approaching and wasn't sure whether I would rather be alone with him or alone to finish my book. Men come and go. A good book lasts forever.
Chloe Thurlow
#40. Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.
Savannah Gostlin
#41. A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.
Waterstones
#42. A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world.
Colette
#45. 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
#46. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John Ruskin
#47. A good book is one of the best vacations one can ever take at a moments notice without leaving where they are.
Lynn
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?
Michael Dobbs
#52. A good book can take you anywhere at anytime.
Me
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Mark Haddon
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.
Sully Tarnish
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. A good book will surely become an event in your life.
Aman Jassal
#70. 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
#71. 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
#74. There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
Stephen King
#75. I get really excited when I plan some time alone with a good book
Steven Aitchison
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Listen to those characters in your head ... sit down and just write a good book.
Timothy Pina
#84. 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
#85. A good book is one that you simply cannot put down..!
Faas Kramer
#87. I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. 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
#89. A good book is a book you want to read all in one day but to last forever
Shelby Pontius
#91. Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
#92. Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.
Naomi Wood
#93. Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Michael Morpurgo
#94. It was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color.
Lincoln Peirce
#95. Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for all I'm worth. Forget staying in with a good book. This Cinderella is going to the ball.
Alexandra Potter
#97. It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.
Karen Thompson Walker
#98. A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#100. Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
Rebecca West
