#good book

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

#be kind #book #considerate #criticism #good

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

#actual experience #already #any #bad #based

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#educational #find #go #good #good book

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

— John Milton

#good #good book #lifeblood #master #precious

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

#except #good #good book #me #responsibility

I wanted to see if I could write a good book. ↗

— James D. Watson

#could #good #good book #i #if i could

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

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

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

— Harold Kushner

#book #further #get #good #good book

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book. ↗

— Vin Scully

#book #cherish #good #good book #i

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#fiction #forget #found #go #good