Good Book Quotes - Page 14

• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Adults

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• A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Book, May, General Public

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• There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Book

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• A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Age, Eras

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

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• If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Names, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Evidence, Please

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• A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Book, Exhausted

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

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• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Home, Lazy

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• I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

  Gail Godwin

  Book, Ifs

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• Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

  Rebecca West

  Book, Ideas, Numbers

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Book, People, Inspire

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• What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Book, Joy

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.168

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• I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Marriage, Couple, Book

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• a good reader makes a good book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reader

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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