Top 100 Read Good Books Quotes
#1. I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
Scott Corbett
#2. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency
the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom
#3. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN
Guy Kawasaki
#4. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
Kira Hawke
#5. If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#6. Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
Patricia Briggs
#7. Life is short. Read good books!
Tina Shaw
#9. 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
#10. Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#11. 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
#12. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Louisa May Alcott
#13. Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.
Mark Twain
#14. Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
Ernest Dimnet
#15. Read good books many times,
rather than many books
Seneca.
#16. If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man
Mark Twain
#17. Tip 7. Read good books until the characters in each story run from you in terror.
James W. Lewis
#18. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
Mark Twain
#20. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.
Khaled Hosseini
#21. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.
Daniel Pinkwater
#22. Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M.J. Rose
#23. There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.
Ryan Blair
#24. I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
Tom Araya
#25. There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
Lemony Snicket
#26. A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.
Gabrielle Dubois
#27. Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.
Cristina Saralegui
#29. This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'
James Patterson
#30. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.
Hanya Yanagihara
#31. In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.
Carol W. Greider
#32. Writing a NYT bestseller was a delightful experience. But there are many books which are read by few that should be read and reread by many, as well as books bought by many that are hardly worth the ink.
Ron Brackin
#33. There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
Lemmy Kilmister
#34. I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.
Rick Riordan
#36. The "to read' list is a place where most good books go to die...
Danny L. Deaube
#37. I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki Murakami
#39. No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.
Burton Rascoe
#40. My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.
Julie Schumacher
#41. Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.
Dawn Huntsman
#42. I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.
Don Novello
#43. If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
Jupiter Hammon
#44. Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.
Stephen Dobyns
#45. Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages as you promise yourself just one more chapter; they shouldn't put you to sleep as you tackle a paragraph for the fifth time.
Kate Morton
#46. I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.
Jackie French
#47. What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.
Laini Taylor
#48. I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.
Alison Owen
#49. I always try to give good ratings to books I have read unless it is really bad. Being a writer I know how a bad rating feels. Sometimes it is better to encourage a writer rather than discourage them. After all the next book they write could be a World Renown novel like Harry Potter.
William Roach
#50. Just started the new John Grisham book, "The Litigators" and so far it's a pretty good story.
I've always been a John Grisham fan and have read almost everything he has written with the exception of maybe only 2 books.
John Grisham
#51. It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters
#52. I think really good books can be read by anybody.
Norton Juster
#53. As we were walking along, Britta took her book out of her schoolbag and smelled it. She let all of us smell it. New books smell so good you can tell how much fun it's going to be to read them.
Astrid Lindgren
#54. I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
Tom Peters
#55. I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.
Anthony Bourdain
#56. I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.
Tyler Hilton
#57. To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book a day (there is no necessary pleasure in that) but may spend two or three years on one book [. . .], read only portions of another, devour a third at a single sitting.
Michael Schmidt
#58. If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.
Adrian McKinty
#59. My dear boy, a piece of advice. Read not so many books, and look a little more upon the Peggies. The little rogues are good for thee, O Marius! By continual flight and blushing thou shalt become a brute by Courfeyrac to Marius
Victor Hugo
#60. I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.
Nick Harkaway
#61. I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.
Ian Doescher
#62. that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.
Robert Burton
#63. I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.
Noah Baumbach
#64. what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#65. Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#66. An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
Roger Ebert
#67. What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.
Jonathan Franzen
#68. 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
#69. I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.
Kaaron Warren
#70. I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.
Daniel Radcliffe
#71. We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.
Jackie French
#72. We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.
Ron Brackin
#73. It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#74. Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer.
G.K. Chesterton
#75. At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.
Donalyn Miller
#77. If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.
Peter Carey
#78. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
Jose Saramago
#79. Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic library! Read them to acquire their story! When you obtain the story of someone or something, you obtain their wisdom as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.
Jeanette Winterson
#81. Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
Charles Caleb Colton
#82. 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
#83. I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
Katherine Paterson
#84. [ ... ]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
#85. I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
Tom Araya
#86. As Schopenhauer noted a hundred and fifty years ago, 'It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.
Andy Miller
#87. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
Louisa May Alcott
#88. If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#89. 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
#90. I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.
Stephanie Seymour
#91. The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.
Carl William Brown
#92. I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
Penn Jillette
#93. I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.
Karen Thompson Walker
#94. It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis
#95. Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
Neil Gaiman
#96. I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately.
Charlyne Yi
#97. She just wanted - had always wanted - a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job. Getting the books - now, that was what *really* mattered to her.
Genevieve Cogman
#98. Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don't they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams
Shawn L. Bird
#99. I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.
Nick Hornby
#100. I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
Alan Lightman
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