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• I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Long, Done

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• There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Book, Reading, People

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• A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Fire, Apples

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• We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Needs, Share

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

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• A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

  Emily Barton

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold

  John Wilson

  Book, Gold, Looks

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• To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when you need them. Best of all, this friend doesn’t have any secrets. They trust you to understand them. They take you to their innermost places. They share their sensations and emotions—and they let you experience them. Wherever you go and however you feel, they are always by your side. For an hour, a day, a week, or forever, their life becomes yours. Their story is your story. That’s the kind of book I’m trying to write.

  Kevin Brooks

  Book, Writing, Your Side

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• One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Asking, Kind

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2015

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• …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Hate, Book

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• In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

  Booker T. Washington

  Book, People, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

  Jack Gantos

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

  Wendy Mass

  Book, Wish, Firsts

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• I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to the reading market. It helps me stay a pastor first, because they have no agenda; they are not thinking: "This would this be a good book someday." They're thinking: "How this will help Bob and Suzy who are going through a tough marriage? What series can encourage them?" And so I really bow to their preference.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Habit, Bad Habits

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• It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Feelings, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

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• Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

  Clive Barker

  Book, Wine, Hypocrite

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• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Book, Mean

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.32, Dell

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• I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Book, Thinking, Forever

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• You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good books written by other people - that's the key. You don't want to worry too much about other people's responses to your work, not during the writing and not after. You just need to read and write, and keep going.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Orange

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• My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.

  Kasi Lemmons

  Book, Reading, Wine

  Source: aalbc.com

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• You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

  Jonathan Dee

  Being Yourself, Book, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no reason why good books should be lowered or lessened being rewritten to meet the demands of people who are not ready or interested enough to make the effort to read.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Book, People, Effort

  Source: www.hbook.com

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