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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

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

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book. — Penelope Wilton

The peace of great books be for you,
Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
Bleach of the light of years held in leather. — Carl Sandburg

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 read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people. — Elon Musk

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. — Pierre L. Van Den Berghe

The moment of meeting, and that of parting are the two greatest epochs of life as sayeth the great book of Zend. — Voltaire

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it. — David Suzuki

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity. — Steve Maraboli

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. — Vladimir Nabokov

I didn't read this book
I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. — William McKeen

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. — Chris Pine

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

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. — Kit Carson

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan

A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you. — Neil Leckman

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. — Moliere

Being influential is not the mark of a great book. — Mortimer Adler

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it! — Ace Frehley

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film. — Deyth Banger

I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life. — Anton DiSclafani

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. — Victor Hugo

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. — Stephen Chbosky

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great. — Desmond Tutu

I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface? — Caroline Kepnes

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. — Andre Maurois

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there. — Rick Moody

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book. — Nella Last

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. — John Donne

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. — Laura Miller

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

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 thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. — Benjamin Disraeli

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book? — Sean Hinn

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did. — Ed Emberley

In fact, much of this book, and perhaps that is its main surprise, examines the great lengths to which the Ottomans went to stay out of the war. — Mustafa Aksakal

The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Because that's where I keep my Great Big Book of Manners by Emily Post and I want to beat you with it. — Susan Bischoff

Great is bookishness and the charm of books. — Augustine Birrell

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up. — Stephen K. Amos

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. — John Ruskin

Only the sixth sense can expose what the other five have hidden. — Matthew A. Petti

Great book stands the test of time unlike my good self ... — Douglas Adams

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving. — Garth Stein

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. — Arnold Bennett

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. — Rose Kennedy

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett

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

Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it. — David A. Santos

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — George Gilfillan

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

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song . — Charles Hartshorne

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers. — Niall Ferguson

Everything comes from the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books. — Andrew Long

No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great. — Shay Dawkins

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

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

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

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

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ... — Leni Riefenstahl

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

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great. — Andy Miller

(the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price) was published in 1981. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

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

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

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

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antoni Gaudi

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message. — Stephen Schwartz

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert

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

Just remember all the good lies have an element of truth to them. — John J. Davis

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

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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

One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.' — John Bolton

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

A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages. — John Hill Burton

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer

Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts. — Matthew A. Petti