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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books. -- Leo Strauss
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. -- Frederick Lenz
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth -- Ranulph Fiennes
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 predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history -- Muhammad Ali
We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution. -- George W. Bush
All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world. -- Michael Jackson
The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me. -- Huey Long
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century -- Ronald Fisher
The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading. -- Michael Silverblatt
George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick. -- Graham Joyce
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself. -- Richard Lewis
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. -- Romain Rolland
The Holy Bible is the greatest book. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible is the greatest book ever written. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book. -- Patricia MacLachlan
In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. -- Frederick Lenz
My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book. -- Yann Martel
The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA. -- Spencer Wells
If he wins a fourth Super Bowl, he's the greatest ever in my book. -- Michael Irvin
The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of. -- Myrtle Reed
Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions. -- Ezra Taft Benson
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. -- Bennett Cerf
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. -- Anthony Horowitz
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed; -- David Gelernter
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. -- Anne Rice
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. -- Anthony Trollope
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. -- Tom Peters
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book. -- Christopher Koch
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. -- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. -- Samuel Johnson
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. -- Gustave Flaubert

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