“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“You are only good as the company you keep.”

Ralph Smart

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

Thorne Smith (1892–1934) an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

“Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. […] If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

“It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

Annie Barrows book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”

Orhan Pamuk book Snow

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher