Great Books Quotes
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It is great to read. You will discover wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
— Donald Ray Pollock
While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men.
— Robert A. Caro
A man who does not read miss great wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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 great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
— Richard J. Foster
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books have great value, actions have greater value.
— Brandon Sanderson
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
— Barry Eisler
The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.
— Charles F. Glassman
One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
— Thomas Carlyle
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
— Ruth Reichl
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
— Nicholas Sparks
Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Books make up no small part of human happiness.
— Frederick The Great
One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
— Carla H. Krueger
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
A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.
— John Hill Burton
Read great books and be great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
— Francois Truffaut
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
— Richard Flanagan
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.
— Matthew Specktor
Holly Barker series was a great read for me. Stuart gives short chapters and continued action all through his books.
— Stuart Woods
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
Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.
— William Benton Clulow
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
Books are great companion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.
— Ellen J. Barrier
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures.
— Rebecca Solnit
They do you a great honor. In Krasia, if no one is trying to kill you, it is because you're not worth killing.
— Peter Brett
Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
— Victoria Osteen
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.
— Mary Pope Osborne
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
— Mortimer J. Adler
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
— John Banville
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'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
— Alan Davies
No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain.
— Ivan Stoikov
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.
— Bertrand Russell
Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?
— Malia Ann Haberman
Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.
— Steven Herrick
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
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
— Edmund Hillary
... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.
— Melinda Salisbury
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.
— Kate Morton
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
— Robert M. Hutchins
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
— Jo Walton
Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
— Mark Twain
Human sympathy has its limits.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
— Mark Twain
I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books
— Georgette Heyer
We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars — Mary Carolyn Davies
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
— Andrew Long
A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all. — Patricia Nedelea
The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.
— John Green
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
— George Gilfillan
As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.
— Rodman Philbrick
