Good Book Quotes - Page 18

• A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Years, Two

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Bed, Companion

  Interviewed by Terence M Green, recorded in J Madison Davis (ed) Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989).

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• My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

  David Levithan

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Writing, Good Friend

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.584, Broadview Press

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