#good book

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Robert Byrne

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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. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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

— John Milton

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

— Sheri S. Tepper

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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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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