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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Editors

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

  Glenn Close

  Book, Survivor, Enough

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

  Norton Juster

  Book, Thinking

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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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• No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Mean, Night

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• A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Book, Teaching

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• I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

  John Flavel

  Book, Men, Funeral

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• The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

  Christopher Darden

  Believe, Book, Editors

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• The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Book, Journey

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• Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?

  Kelly Gallagher

  Book, School, Commitment

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.30, Stenhouse Publishers

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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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• Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Reading, Past

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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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• 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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• Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

  Jane Kenyon

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

  Diane Setterfield

  Believe, Book, Important

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Book, Anchors, Funny Drinking

  "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.

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• There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Periods, Distinction

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• The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

  Wilkie Collins

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

  Dorothy Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (2008). “The duty of delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day”, Marquette Univ Pr

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• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

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• If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those weeks in the spring of 1997 were when I came into myself as a writer. They feel like some of the best weeks of writing I’ll ever have. The discovery that I could write better about something as trivial as an ordinary family dinner than I could about the exploding prison population of the United States, and the corporatization of American life, and all the other things I’d been trying to do, was a real revelation.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Spring, Real, Book

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