The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest.… — Shauna James Ahern Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
