Quotes of: Good-book Keyword

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Jasper Fforde

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Jupiter Hammon

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Jodi Picoult

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

Lauren Weisberger

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Mortimer Adler

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Magnus Carlsen

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Mark Haddon

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Rick Riordan

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Sheri S. Tepper

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

Wilbur Smith

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Alain de Botton

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

Amit Kalantri

A true friend is like a good book, the inside is always better than the cover.

Anonymous

Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).

Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary

How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fis...

Lost in a Good Book

If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for student, as a father, mother, he will be better than the teacher, who read all the books, but has no love for the cause, nor to the students. If the t...

Leo Tolstoy