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• I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  International Herald Tribune (Paris), November 5, 1991.

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• From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Taken, Darkness

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I think good books have to make a few people angry.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Thinking, People

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• A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Apology, Tree

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• A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Book, Heart

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• In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Literature, Theory

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.24, Random House

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• Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Trying

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Nov 09, 2015

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• I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Long

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• Good books are for consideration after, too.

  Stephen King

  Book, Consideration

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

  Oswald Chambers

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Healing, Good Friend

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• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Book, Writing, Criticism

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• It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Attention, Chance

  "The Writing Life: An Interview with Karen Thompson Walker". Hazel & Wren Interview, www.hazelandwren.com. July 24, 2012.

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• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Adults

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• A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Book, May, General Public

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• Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it's not a particularly good book. You're in it, and you're committed to it.

  James Salter

  Powerful, Book, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Ignorance, Illiterate

  "Days with Bernard Shaw". Book by Stephen Winsten, 1949.

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• There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Book

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• A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Age, Eras

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

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• What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Book, Joy

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.168

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• Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Book, People, Inspire

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

  Rebecca West

  Book, Ideas, Numbers

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• I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

  Gail Godwin

  Book, Ifs

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