Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,'… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life -… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image