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I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
— John Bunyan
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
— Colleen McCullough
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
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
— Thomas Carlyle
Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.
— Stephen Chbosky
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
— Anatole Broyard
The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness.
— Kamel Daoud
The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed.
— Billy Graham
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
— Harvey Pekar
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 read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
— Junot Diaz
All great changes in life were inspired either by a book or by a personal point of view. The greatest were inspired by a woman.
— Sameh Elsayed
A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
— Mortimer Adler
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
— George R R Martin
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
— Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
— David Benioff
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
— Stephen Chbosky
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
— Wentworth Miller
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
— G.K. Chesterton
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
— L. Frank Baum
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
— Bill Vaughan
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
— Malcolm Bradbury
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
— Natalie Goldberg
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
If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.
— Steven Johnson
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
— Matthew Henry
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
— Neil Jordan
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
— Stewart O'Nan
A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A great book is like great evil.
— Callimachus
A great large book is a great evil.
— Joseph Addison
This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it.
— Jeanne Birdsall
Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?
— Michael Dobbs
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
— Richard Flanagan
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
— A.A. Milne
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
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
— Matthew Vaughn
Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.
— Truman Capote
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.
— Stephen Schwartz
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.
— Matthew Specktor
And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book. But
— Sherman Alexie
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...
— Leni Riefenstahl
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
— Andrew Long
You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'
— Kim Edwards
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
— George Gilfillan
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
He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. "Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit. — Markus Zusak
I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Groucho Marx This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.
— Groucho Marx
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
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
— Michael Cunningham
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
— Claudia Christian
What you don't know would make a great book.
— Sydney Smith
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
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
— G.K. Chesterton
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
— Nicholson Baker
Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible.
— Matthew A. Petti
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.
— George Packer
One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.
— George Gissing
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
— Stephen Hawking
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
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
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
A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.
— John Hill Burton
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
— Henry Rollins
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.
— Kelly Clarkson
If this book is a thriller, it's also a requiem, the story of the last days of a great figure and the end of his movement.
— Hampton Sides
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Discovery a good book is like finding a great treasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita