Good Book Quotes - Page 8

• Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Home, Lazy

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• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Book, Exhausted

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

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• It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Evidence, Please

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• If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Names, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

  Vikram

  Book, Ignored

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• I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Marriage, Couple, Book

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• I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition. I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. But what am I willing to do for that? I struggle with that a little bit. I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner. I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff very much.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.

  Ali Banisadr

  Dream, I Like You, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Sorry, Book, Mean

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• Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Jobs, Book, Humility

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

  Carolina Herrera

  Book, People, Agendas

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• A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Book, Dark

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• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  Laini Taylor

  Book, Finishing It, Worry

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Book, Very Good, Stills

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• I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Asking, Lasts

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Reading, Crime Novels

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• The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

  Jo Nesbo

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

  Amanda Hocking

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Good Movie, Different

  "Seth Grahame-Smith Exclusive Interview THE HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER; Updates on DARK SHADOWS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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• People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, People, Want

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• I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

  Dorothy Fields

  Book, Ties, Together

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• Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

  Neil Young

  Book, Men, Southern

  Song: Southern Man

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• Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Party, Book, Nerd

  "My Journey Through The Games" by Jacqueline Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

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