Welcome to Good Book Quotes – a treasure trove of inspiring, thought-provoking, and timeless quotes from some of the greatest books ever written. Books have the power to transport us to different worlds, introduce us to fascinating characters, and ignite our imaginations. Within the pages of these literary masterpieces, we often stumble upon profound insights, memorable passages, and words that resonate with us on a deep level. This website is dedicated to curating and sharing those exceptional quotes that leave an indelible mark on our hearts and minds.
As you explore this collection, you’ll find quotes that span various genres and eras, each offering a unique perspective, wisdom, or simply a delightful turn of phrase. Whether you’re an avid reader, a writer seeking inspiration, or someone looking to infuse a touch of literary beauty into your day-to-day life, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll discover a rich selection of quotes that you can use to enhance your social media posts, create stunning visual content, or simply savor for their inherent wisdom and beauty. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of Good Book Quotes and discover the magic that lies within these words.
Published in 1947, ‘The Plague’ has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or the human condition. But it’s also a very good book about plagues, and about how people react to them – a whole category of human behavior that we have forgotten. Anne Applebaum
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I’ve seen ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ so many times, and each time it’s a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It’s like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn’t seen the time before – and that’s rare. Michelle Dockery
The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It’s been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda. Elizabeth Flock
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt. Richard Bausch
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. Thomas Sydenham
Don’t get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time. Rachel Nichols
A good book is a good book. End of story. Malorie Blackman
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. Rick Riordan
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. Jim Bishop
A good book written for children can be read by adults. Norton Juster
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. Oswald Chambers
For starters, let’s dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg – sorry – for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless – sorry, again – attempts to make the subject more palatable – last one. Mitchell Zuckoff
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book. Stewart O’Nan
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. William Feather
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn’t find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it. Martha Stewart
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work. Walter Kirn
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. Michael Morpurgo
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that’s one more good book that I’ve helped along… and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line. Garth Nix
I feel happy and secure when I’m on my bed with a good book… I forget everything which is terrible in our world. Francoise Hardy
I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word ‘genre’ altogether. A good book is a good book. Gillian Flynn
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. Fran Lebowitz
I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that’s what I did with ‘Swing Time.’ Vick Hope
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands. Mark Rylance
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you’re inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books. Rick Yancey
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. Alice Walker
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Amos Bronson Alcott
I love what Max Landis is doing with ‘Superman: American Alien.’ That’s a really good book. Mark Waid
It’s really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book. Sara Cox
I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, ‘What can we know about her education?’ It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before. Stacy Schiff
When I’m in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book. Natalie Imbruglia
My main piece of advice would be don’t worry about being published – just write a really good book, but also don’t be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don’t be afraid. David Levithan
I’d rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. Donna Tartt
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there’s always the fear: ‘What about the next one?’ Dani Shapiro
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book ‘The Big Oyster,’ called ‘The Essential Oyster.’ I blurbed a pretty good book about meat called ‘Meathooked.’ Mark Kurlansky
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. Malcolm Cowley
With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and I am passionate that all children learn the skills they need to experience the joy of a good book. Harry Enfield
I love a good book and a glass of wine. It’s like heaven. Christina Anstead
Who learns most from a good book is the author. Jose Bergamin
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. Malorie Blackman
Readers want a good book; it’s a writer’s job to give it to them. Sylvia Day
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book. Vin Scully
I remember going over proofs of this book – my first book – back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called the ‘Victory Cafe’, and thinking sadly to myself, ‘This is a very good manuscript but not a very good book.’ I don’t know what I meant by that, but I was pretty heartbroken and sure it was true. Sheila Heti
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It’s hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. Amanda Hocking
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. Moby
I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel. Channing Dungey
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton
A great writer is a great writer… Tolstoy was not a woman, but ‘Anna Karenina’ is still a pretty good book. Phil Klay
Take time to enjoy the flight – read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep. Orlando Bloom
I’m obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it’s all I can think about and all I can do. Jessie Cave
I don’t have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book. Angie Harmon
I’ll always be reading a good book. I don’t have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of get hooked on, reading genre books or anything like that. It’s just really anything anyone kind of recommends or is going around or I hear is good. Dylan O’Brien
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I’m in. I can also be a beach bum – I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. Cherie Lunghi
I think it’s a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn’t happen. I’m a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren’t. How can you buy a book if you haven’t heard of it? Amish Tripathi
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek… whatever you want to call me. I’m the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party. Jacqueline Emerson
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. Janet Street-Porter
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things. Seth Grahame-Smith
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, ‘Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.’ Charles Bock
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Farquhar Tupper
Writers aren’t in competition with one another. It isn’t a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well. J. A. Konrath
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Mark Haddon
Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else. Katie Piper
My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there. Diana Gabaldon
One of the joys of a really good book is that you’re so into the world of the book, you forget what you’re looking at is words on a page. Rick Yancey
In any creative process, the hardest thing is putting the pen to paper. You walk around the room staring at a blank piece like, ‘What if I don’t make a good song? What if I don’t make a good book? What if I don’t make a good painting?’ You just gotta put your pen to the paper and not judge your work. Nav
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. Deb Caletti
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it – none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable. Sharon Draper
It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them. Kirsten Powers
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you’re working a few hours a day and you’ve got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you’re okay. Mary Oliver
A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think. Noah Schnapp
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. Robin Gibb
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it’ll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee. John Sandford
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. Mark Haddon
I love a good book. I’m not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books. Madelaine Petsch
My idea of a night out is actually a night in – in pajamas, with a good book or playing ‘Mario Kart.’ It’s not that glamorous. Ronan Farrow
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. Marcia Gay Harden
I wanted to go to Portland because it’s a really good book town. Patti Smith
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you’ve got to get it right. Christopher Hampton
Usually, if I can’t fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of ‘The Real Housewives.’ I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion. Ivanka Trump
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Harold Kushner
Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. Chris Klein
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
Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I’ll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little – I rarely get the time to do this normally. Carolina Herrera
You don’t need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don’t want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives. Kevin Henkes
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. John Milton
You write, hoping to write a good book; that’s it. Marissa Moss
I don’t drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book. Michael Rosbash
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they’re done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, ‘Wow.’ Frank Peretti
My cottage is on Lake Huron and it’s always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book. Tessa Virtue
A bad book and good marketing won’t work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it. Amish Tripathi
Even if you aren’t a believer, there are incredible stories in the ‘good book’ that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is – and by the way, Shakespeare’s plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references. Eric Metaxas
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. Edna St. Vincent Millay
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. Diana Wynne Jones
If you’re going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time. Zadie Smith
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Robert Byrne
Nothing beats getting lost in the world of a good book with a fabulous soundtrack. Edith Bowman
Ah, ‘Kismet,’ or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production ever but it’s got a fantastic score. It’s not an awfully good book though. You really have to work hard to eke out any laughs from that script. Michael Ball
We’ve been called the soundtrack of people’s lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive – we’re like a good book that people go back to. Maurice White
I wanted to see if I could write a good book. James D. Watson
