Quotes of: Good-book Keyword

Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters even–caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you o...

The Thirteenth Tale

…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books. Words are there to confuse you. They are just messing around with your mind. You have to look beyond words. There i...

Weekend In Faro

Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books for boys they fancied.' Ellie bent down and picked up the stone and put it on the table. 'It's like sending a love letter without ha...

Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe?

There, little girl, don't read, You're fond of your books, I know, But Brother might mope If he had no hope Of getting ahead of you. It's dull for a boy who cannot lead. There, little girl, don't read.

Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and it gets tiresome to read books about skinny women all the time. There's nothing wrong with skinny women, I just don't relate to their li...

Seraphina Donavan

I’ve had situations when I’ve actually encouraged authors to self-publish because their book was poor. Now one would conclude that I’m asking them to self-publish because their book was poor and the self-publishing warehouse is where all the po...

King Samuel Benson

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique group...

Beth Revis

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Haruki Murakami

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can cont...

W.H. Auden

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I ne...

Walter Dean Myers

You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.

Japanese

If you see him riding on a bamboo-cane, say to him, "Good health to your horse!"

Moroccan

There is a meaning of life but I've been sworn to secrecy.

Cartoonist's Book Camp

A great book remains eternally in one’s memory as today’s legend.

Congo

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Nothing succeeds like success. Kill me now.

The Depressed Guy's Book of Wisdom

It's iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It’s often only as beauty fades that it becomes apparent it was ever there.

The Happy Endings Book Club

If freedom isn't worth dying for, then...what is it really worth?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Injustice against some...is injustice against all!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration