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My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. -- Robin Gibb
Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality. -- Nathalie M. Llanto
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. -- Ed Byrne
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. -- Robert Byrne
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. -- Frank Shorter
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. -- Juno Temple
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. -- Marcia Gay Harden
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare. -- Michelle Dockery
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. -- Mark Haddon
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. -- Maya Angelou
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
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
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one. -- Eleanor Catton
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts. -- Drew Houston
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable. -- Sharon Draper
Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. -- Michael Moore
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
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters. -- Candace Camp
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book. -- Ashwin Sanghi
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. -- Malorie Blackman
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. -- John Green
You live several lives while reading [a good book]. -- William Styron
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. -- Orson Scott Card
A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. -- Sir Harry Lauder
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call -- Larry McMurtry
Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to? -- Cecil Castellucci
Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. -- John Bosco
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading -- C. S. Lewis
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. -- Alain de Botton
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. -- Bill Vaughan
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. -- Emily Barton
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. -- J. K. Rowling
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. -- Isaac
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book. -- George Eliot
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. -- C. S. Lewis
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. -- Christopher Noxon

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