#good book

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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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

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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. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

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

— Norton Juster

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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

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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Who learns most from a good book is the author. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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

— John Milton

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

— Patti Smith

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

— Donna Tartt

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