Quotes About Books

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

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

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

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

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

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

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Good authour Good books

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.