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What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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.
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
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.
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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.
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
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.
I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
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.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.
My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.' It's not that glamorous.
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.
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
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.
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.
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.
I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book.
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.