Good Book Quotes - Page 17

• I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Writing, Mediocre

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• A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

  David Almond

  Book, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

  Dav Pilkey

  Book, Boredom

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• The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly
  bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life,
  corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while
  when you are in church, or have just read a good book,
  BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

  Justin Winsor

  Book, Power, Soul

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• How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Writing, Years

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Silence, Paper

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

  Angie Harmon

  Book, Curls, Couches

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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 good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Book, Written

  Phyllis A. Whitney (1945). “The Silver Inkwell”

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

  Ashley Montagu

  Book, Remarkable, Euphemism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Hands, Golden

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• A good book is an event in my life.

  Stendhal

  Book, Writing, Events

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  RICHARD LLEWELLYN (1967). “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY”

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• reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Book, Reading, Silence

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