Good Books Quotes

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

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.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

Drink deeply from good books.

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.