Good Quotes

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

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

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

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

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

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.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

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

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.