Good Book Quotes

• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Farewell To Arms, Common

  "Papa Hemingway". Book by A. E. Hotchner. Part 2, Chapter 7, 1966.

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• I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

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• Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  Alice Walker

  Life, Art, Book

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• Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Reading, Literature

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

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

  Linda Lael Miller

  Book, Thinking, Worry

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

  William Feather

  Book, Good Friend, Leaving

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Education, Book

  "Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

  Allan Bloom

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

  Jim Bishop

  Book, Drunk, Bartending

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• No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

  Ed Byrne

  Suicide, Book, Reading

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• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hurt, Book, Writing

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Hero

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Essence, Soul

  Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

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