Good Book Quotes - Page 4

• If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems you really like. There are some poets who are fairly big names in contemporary poetry and who write a book and I might like three or four poems in the book, but the rest of them don't appeal to me personally; but I think that's the way it really ought to be. I think it's really a rare thing to like everything that somebody has written.

  Ted Kooser

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Reading, Night

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• I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Reading, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Wall, Book, Sea

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Sad stories make good books

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Stories, Sad Story

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.70, A&C Black

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• If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Henry Miller (2012). “Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Life Is Short, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Helping

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• Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, People, Conscious

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• Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

  Mas Oyama

  Book, Reading, Good Friend

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• There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Book, Life Is Too Short, Life Is

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• Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Swim

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

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• There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

  Mary Oliver

  Beach, Book, Years

  Source: balisha-neverenoughtime.blogspot.com

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• Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

  Dolly Parton

  Real, Book, Judging

  Song: Backwoods Barbie, Album: Backwoods Barbie, 2008

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• Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Real, Book, Home

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• I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.

  Vin Scully

  Book, Cherish, Moments

  "Conversation With My Hero: Broadcaster Vin Scully". Interview with Michael Connelly, parade.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Book, Ideas, Printed Word

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Eye, Men

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• What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

  Zig Ziglar

  Jobs, Book, Years

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