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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

I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro. — Voltaire

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

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. — Dan Brown

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

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

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. — Robin Sharma

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. — Franz Kafka

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books have great value, actions have greater value. — Brandon Sanderson

Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact! — Deyth Banger

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 of
having 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

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books. — Scott Sigler

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

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books. — Roberto Bolano

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

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books. — Anne Bronte

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

Read great books and be great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. — Marilyn French

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in. — Alec Baldwin

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

Candor must be a constant if you are truly committed to producing great profitability through the creation of tremendous products and services. — Clay Clark

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

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

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains. — William Benton Clulow

There are several GREAT places to buy books while visiting in Cherry Hill Pennsylvania — Ida Mingle

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay

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

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. — Kristen Lamb

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them. — Ellen J. Barrier

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality! — Carol Berg

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

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. — Ellen Douglas

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

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards. — Martin Amis

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

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon

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

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. — Bill Bryson

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

Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina. — Elena Ferrante

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

The colour books great on her, but she Looks beautiful every day. — J. Lynn

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 whole
By 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

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ... — H.G.Wells

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation. — Rodman Philbrick

History books celebrate people who overcome great challenges, they do not celebrate critics. — Ryan Chamberlin