Good Book Quotes

• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

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• All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Farewell To Arms, Common

  "Papa Hemingway". Book by A. E. Hotchner. Part 2, Chapter 7, 1966.

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• Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  Alice Walker

  Life, Art, Book

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• Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Reading, Literature

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

  William Feather

  Book, Good Friend, Leaving

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Education, Book

  "Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Acting, Hints

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• 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

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Book

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

  Rene Descartes

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

  Kathleen Norris

  Happiness, Book, Long

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• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Spirit

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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