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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. -- Julian Barnes
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. -- Wentworth Miller
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -- Robertson Davies
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -- Pablo Neruda
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear. -- Ben Stein
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. -- Abraham Lincoln
great books are the ones we need -- Charles Bukowski
What you don't know would make a great book. -- Sydney Smith
Being influential is not the mark of a great book. -- Mortimer Adler
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. -- John Green
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. -- B. F. Skinner
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. -- Antoni Gaudi
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. -- Bertrand Russell
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. -- Charlaine Harris
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. -- Saint Augustine
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. -- Michael Cunningham
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. -- Richard Flanagan
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. -- William Styron
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I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses. -- Scott Westerfeld
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. -- Carl Hiaasen
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. -- Joseph Joubert
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it. -- Josh Radnor
That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you. -- Jessica Zafra
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -- Theodore Parker
It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man. -- Germaine Greer
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House. -- Michael Eric Dyson
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer. -- J. G. Ballard
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. -- Michael Cunningham
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University. -- Orhan Pamuk
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. -- Randy Bachman
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. -- Robertson Davies
I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad. -- Caroline Leavitt
Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them. -- Bob Dylan
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not. -- Michael Morpurgo
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens. -- Wendell Berry
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time. -- Billy Joel
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore. -- Jared Padalecki
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it. -- Abraham Lincoln
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books. -- Betsy Lerner
A great book is like great evil. -- Callimachus
The Bible is God's great lesson book... -- Ellen G. White
Nature's great book is written in mathematics. -- Galileo Galilei
Everything comes from the great book of nature. -- Antonio Gaudi
A great large book is a great evil. -- Joseph Addison
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights. -- Mason Cooley
A great book should leave you with many experiences. -- William Styron
Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod. -- Kelly Clarkson
All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A book may be as great a thing as a battle. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book. -- Ellen G. White
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them. -- Edith Hamilton
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. -- Antoni Gaudi
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! -- Martin Luther
If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. -- Warren Buffett
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. -- Vladimir Nabokov
In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific. -- Anne Hathaway
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! -- Abraham Lincoln
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book. -- Sally Kirkland
The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. -- Ray Bradbury
You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing. -- Guy Kawasaki
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song . -- Charles Hartshorne
Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book. -- Reed Krakoff
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. -- Akhil Sharma
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. -- Antonio Gaudi
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. -- Alaa Al Aswany
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. -- Guy Vanderhaeghe
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. -- Moliere
I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy. -- Natalie Dormer
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. -- A. A. Milne
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read. -- Markus Zusak
I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great! -- Jacob Hopkins
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. -- Stephen Chbosky
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. -- John Bunyan
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? -- Neil Jordan
Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. -- Chuck Miceli
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life. -- Jessamyn West
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. -- Bill Vaughan
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. -- Jerry Spinelli
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message. -- Stephen Schwartz
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book. -- Matthew Vaughn
I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book. -- Penelope Wilton
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. -- George Packer
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! -- Elif Batuman
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book. -- Phil Klay
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it! -- Cornel West
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. -- Steve Leveen
I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works. -- Buzz Osborne
The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. -- Tony Romo
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. -- Larry Moss
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. -- Matthew Henry
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! -- Claudia Christian
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. -- William Landay
All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. -- Blind Melon
I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues. -- Mark McKinnon
I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book. -- Emily Gould
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down. -- Nick Simmons
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. -- Ray Bradbury
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films. -- J.P. Donleavy
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes. -- Deb Caletti
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. -- Joseph Joubert
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong. -- Billy Bob Thornton
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. -- Stephen Hawking
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!" -- Lewis Black
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. -- Paul Rhys
I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book. -- Max Lucado
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion. -- Stephen Hawking

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