Good Book Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

  Vikram

  Book, Ignored

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• A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, You Like It

  "Vermischte Schriften". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1789-1793.

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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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• Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

  Ben Hecht

  Bible, Book, League

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Book, Long

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• I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

  Earl Warren

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

  Francoise Hardy

  Book, Our World, Forget Everything

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

  Morgan Freeman

  Book, Sleep, Vacation

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Book, Reading

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

  Peg Kehret

  Book, Reading, Writing

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