#good book

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

— Vin Scully

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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

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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

#feel #friend #good #good book #know

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

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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 is the best of friends, the same today and forever. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. ↗

— Robin Gibb

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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

#darkness #edge #glimpse #good #good book

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book. ↗