Good Book Quotes - Page 11

• I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

  Moliere

  Book, Good Friend, Bottles

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• My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

  Pete Hamill

  Book, Ambition, Weather

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Inspire

  "A chat with Kimberly Willis Holt". Interview with Chat Moderator,, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Book, Government, Actors

  "Interview: Pakistan's Zardari On Mumbai, The ISI". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.newsweek.com. December 12, 2008.

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• Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

  Richard Peck

  Book, Leaving, World

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• I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Character, Kids

  Rick Riordan, James Dashner, Brandon Mull (2014). “The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack”, p.614, Scholastic Inc.

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• The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.

  George Pelecanos

  Country, Book, Cat

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• a good reader makes a good book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reader

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• I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

  Kim Alexis

  Mom, Book, Phones

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• 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

  Children, Book, Reading

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• 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

  Teacher, Book, People

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• 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

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

  Thomas Starr King

  Book, Toil, Needs

  Thomas Starr King (1880). “Christianity and Humanity ...: Ed., with a Memoir”

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• Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

  Greg Rutherford

  Book, Clothes, Noise

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

  Max Lucado

  War, Book, Blue

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Husband, Spring, Women

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

  Daniel Levitin

  Book, Numbers, Peers

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• The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Giving

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• In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Order

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• 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

  Beautiful, Book, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• It is with a good book as it is with good company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Good Company

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Book, Silent

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.279, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Reading, Book, Two

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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