Good Book Quotes - Page 13

• A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Reading, Book

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• A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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• If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Writing, Unique

  Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, michaelaventrella.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Book, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

  John Quincy Adams

  Book, Reading, Temptation

  John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

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• Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.183, A&C Black

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• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

  Richard North Patterson

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Writing

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• What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Book, Writing, Sweat

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• There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Writing, Sunset

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

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• A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Music, Book

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Children, Flower

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Book

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• The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Inspirational Life, Taken

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• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, People

  Walter Bagehot (1911). “Literary Studies: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (1855) Appendices; Letters on the French coup d̓etat”

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• ...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Book, Eye

  Ireland Radio and Television Interview, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 24, 2004.

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• He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Sunshine, Fire

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “Fair Game”, p.67, Carina Press

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• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Reading, Past

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.

  Ron McLarty

  Hate, Book, Let Me

  Ron McLarty (2005). “The Memory of Running”, p.53, Penguin

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• They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Book, Should, Gravity

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

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• No one who writes a good book is really dead.

  Walter Moers

  Book, Writing

  Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.347, The Overlook Press

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• There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

  Cyril Connolly

  Party, Book, Writing

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• There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Heaven, Earth

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.17, Melville House

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• But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?

  Malorie Blackman

  Book, Like Love, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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