There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read… — Keith David Copy Share Image
“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich Copy Share Image
With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find… — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
