Quotes on Good Book

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.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

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

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

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

As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

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

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

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.

...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.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.