Great Book Quotes

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

Beauty, Great, Truth

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Wentworth Miller

Great, Book, Creativity

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
Robertson Davies

Age, Great, Experience

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.
Kelly Clarkson

Great, Book, Two

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
Ben Stein

Great, Book, Makes

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies

Age, Great, Morning

What you don't know would make a great book.
Sydney Smith

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

Great, Book, Writing

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
Josh Radnor

Time, Great, Experience

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
Michael Morpurgo

Great, Children, Book

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
Michael Cunningham

Great, Book, Serious

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
Neil Jordan

Great, Book, Making

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron

Great, Live, Book

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
Germaine Greer

Great, Enemy, Help

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Denis O'Hare

Great, Book, Read

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
Charlaine Harris

Great, Book, Write

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Julian Barnes

Life, Great, Book

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Ted Rall

Good, Great, Book

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
Anne Enright

Time, Great, Winning

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.
Michael Cunningham

Great, Book, Trying

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.
Michael Cunningham

Great, School, Book

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

Time, Great, History

There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.
Jared Padalecki

Love, Great, Book

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
Stewart O'Nan

Time, Good, Great

A great book is like great evil.
Callimachus

Great, Evil, Book

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