Top 50 Good Book Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Book Quotes from famous people such as Fran Lebowitz, Katie Piper, Christina Anstead, Amanda Hocking, Jacqueline Emerson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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

Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
Fran Lebowitz
Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else.
Katie Piper
I love a good book and a glass of wine. It’s like heaven.
Christina Anstead
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
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
I don’t drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.
Michael Rosbash
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon
Older teens tend to write to me and say, ‘Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.’ And then there are the letters from adults who say, ‘This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?’
Matthew Tobin Anderson
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
When I’m in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
Natalie Imbruglia
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
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
A good book is a good book. End of story.
Malorie Blackman
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
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
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
Stewart O’Nan
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
A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.
Noah Schnapp
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
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
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
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Michael Morpurgo
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
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
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
I wanted to go to Portland because it’s a really good book town.
Patti 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
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
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
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
James D. Watson
I’ve always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
I don’t have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.
Angie Harmon
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
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
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
Richard Bausch
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
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
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
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
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
Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.
Chris Klein
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 great writer is a great writer… Tolstoy was not a woman, but ‘Anna Karenina’ is still a pretty good book.
Phil Klay
I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.
Channing Dungey
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
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
Moby