Good Book Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

  Steve Earle

  Hate, Book, Writing

  "Musician Steve Earle". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2011.

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• Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Men, Roof

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.17

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• I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.68, Random House

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• As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

  Elena Ferrante

  Girl, Book, Hero

  "Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228". Interview with Sandro and Sandra Ferri, elenaferrante.com. 2015.

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• One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Song, Queens, Crazy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

  Pete Dexter

  Book, Mind, Enlightening

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• I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

  Gary Barlow

  Song, Book, Play

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• It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Wonderful, Curious

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• One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

  Moby

  Sex, Book, Long

  "Bloomsbury Down Under". www.smh.com.au. November 11, 2002.

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• Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

  Nelson Mandela

  Book, Reading, Joy

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• You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Book, Museums

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.297, University of Virginia Press

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• I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.

  Stuart Pearce

  Book, Home, Car

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• You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it not existing. It's like a good book. What makes a good book is hard to say. I don't know. I just look for something that grabs me. I don't have a way of looking for a project, and I don't know many people that do. It's just year to year, and what's going around and what's there.

  Harry Treadaway

  Book, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'

  Ken Kesey

  Book, Writing, Taught Us

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• Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Book, Philosopher, Poet

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• I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

  Juno Temple

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Four, Stills

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• Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.

  Bo Burnham

  Book, Pussy, Yeah

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• The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

  Martha Stewart

  Book, Writing, Firsts

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