Good Book Quotes - Page 11

• Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Cooking

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Sex, Book, Sleep

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• A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Mysterious, Natural

  1850 Journal entry,16 Nov. In Bradford Torrey and F H Allen (eds) The Journals of Henry David Thoreau (1906).

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• 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

  Book, Doe, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社

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• God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

  Curtis Jackson

  Pain, Rap, Book

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• I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.

  Chris Raschka

  Book, Reading, Illustration

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• 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

  Book, Comforting, Intellectual

  David Quammen (2012). “The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

  Richard Flanagan

  Book, Soul, Great Book

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.38, Vintage

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• The best argument is an undeniably good book.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Argument, Defeat

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

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• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Book, Fall

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• I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Book, Doctors, Buoys

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• Reading books is good,
  Rereading good books is better.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Reading, Rereading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Thoughtful, Suffering

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

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• As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Holiday

  "Towards a Psychology of Education".

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• There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Matter, Reader

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• A good book is an education of the heart.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Heart

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• Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, 'Will other people find this story so interesting that they will tell others about it?' Remember: A bestselling book usually follows a simple rule, 'It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told'; not, 'It's a wonderfully told story.'

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Home, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

  John Green

  Book, Algorithms, Booksellers

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• There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Morning, Book, Hot

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• The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

  Ashley Montagu

  Book, Remarkable, Euphemism

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• Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

  George Plimpton

  Book, Cycling, Giving

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• I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But 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. I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. But what am I willing to do for that? I struggle with that a little bit. I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner. I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff very much.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

  Dani Shapiro

  Book, Fleeting, Next

  "Dani Shapiro: Stop Asking for Permission". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I think really good books can be read by anybody.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Thinking

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