Good Book Quotes (page 5)

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• reading
• book
• good

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. William Styron

• book
• writing
• reading

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne

• good
• book
• profitable

That is a good book which is opened withexpectation and closed in profit. Amos Bronson Alcott

• good
• book
• reading

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't. Mark Twain

• life sayings
• to live
• progress

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute? the foundation of the human condition? and should be better.... Mario Vargas Llosa

• history
• philosophy
• literature

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. Roger Ebert

• good
• really good
• great

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

• dream
• inspiration
• inspired

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be. Elie Wiesel

• good
• bible
• book

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. Charles Spurgeon

• good
• book
• goodly

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get. Georg C. Lichtenberg

• good
• book
• library

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.'No, and if he were I would burn my library. William Shakespeare

• life
• feeling
• learning

* 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

• beauty
• good
• book

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

• good
• reading
• time

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. William Ellery Channing

• understanding
• small
• reading

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever. Ezra Pound