#good book

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Mark Haddon

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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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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

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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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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

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

— Harold Kushner

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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

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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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