Top 100 Quotes About Good Books
#1. Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
Rene Descartes
#2. Good books are the real recorded source of good thoughts all times & every where !!
M K Gandhi
#3. Good books are for consideration after, too.
Stephen King
#4. Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Atwood H. Townsend
#5. Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
Stephen King
#6. Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not.
Mortimer J. Adler
#7. Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.
S. Evan Townsend
#9. One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#10. Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
#11. When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.
Holly Black
#12. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
#13. All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books are on his shelves ... I have always found books to be helpful, yet they must be good books.
James V. Schall
#15. A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
Nicholaa Spencer
#16. There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
W. H. Auden
#17. Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.
Francis Bacon
#18. Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
Mas Oyama
#19. There are an infinite number of good books, and only a finite amount of time in which to read them.
Victor A. Davis
#20. Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.
Will Schwalbe
#21. Good books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
John Green
#22. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#23. Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
Jane Kenyon
#24. We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
Nelson Mandela
#26. I think good books have to make a few people angry.
Mark Haddon
#27. Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Scott Westerfeld
#29. There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
Martin Luther
#30. One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing - and reading. Reading good books written by real artists - until you understand why they are good.
Truman Capote
#31. A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.
Daniel C. Dennett
#32. I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.
Tom Brokaw
#33. I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked. I did not care how a story was written. There were no bad stories: every story was new and glorious.
Neil Gaiman
#34. With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
Charles Caleb Colton
#35. Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!
Laura E. Richards
#36. ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388
And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be so lavish as to ruin masterpieces for yourself. There are not enough of them!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#37. Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
Anne Lamott
#39. People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.
Steve Earle
#40. I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
Walter Mosley
#41. Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
Dorothy Parker
#42. The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
#43. People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
Lev Grossman
#44. Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
Meg Rosoff
#45. [ ... ]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something left unsaid. I look forward to the life to come as the unending last chapter of all the good books I have ever read.
Kathryn Lindskoog
#47. I will spend my life traveling, laughing, drinking all kinds of tea, meeting new people, reading good books, growing things, creating beauty, eating chocolate, doing magic, making love and occasionally I will write something worth reading.
Brooke Hampton
#49. Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#50. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
S.A. Huchton
#51. My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.
Brewster Kahle
#52. There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
Philip Pullman
#53. ... because commonsensically speaking, a room full of good books had to better for your health than a room with no books in it at all.
Susan Branch
#54. I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
Hugo Chavez
#55. People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
John Polkinghorne
#56. The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.
Carl William Brown
#57. Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
H.G.Wells
#58. There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Norton Juster
#59. I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
#63. You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
Doris Lessing
#65. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
#66. you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.
Dara Horn
#70. A love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have,
Louisa May Alcott
#71. We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
Glenn Close
#72. There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.
Lou Doillon
#73. Turn her loose out of doors; give her good books, and leave her alone. You won't be disappointed in the woman who evolves.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#74. Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
Joe Queenan
#75. Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.
Katarina Bivald
#76. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
Mark Twain
#77. Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody's favourite slave?
Dorothy Dunnett
#78. The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
Stephen Covey
#82. She was always reading, and she read very good books.
J.D. Salinger
#83. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden
#84. No company like good books, especially the book of God.
Matthew Henry
#85. Read good books many times,
rather than many books
Seneca.
#87. Good books do not make people wiser or happier
only more conscious.
Mason Cooley
#88. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Louisa May Alcott
#89. There were some very good books in the backseat of the little Volkswagen; good books were the best protection from evil that Pepe had actually held in his hands - you could not hold faith in Jesus in your hands, not in quite the same way you could hold good books.
John Irving
#91. I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.
Peg Kehret
#92. If you walk away from God you should probably try to stay in the good books of Luck.
Salman Rushdie
#93. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
#94. Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.
Mark Twain
#95. Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown
#96. How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
Edgar Allan Poe
#97. Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
Ernest Dimnet
#98. You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.
Andrew Smith
#99. Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
William Ellery Channing
#100. One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
Meg Rosoff
