When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song. — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read… — Max Lucado 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
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
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer Copy Share Image
I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes." — Coco Jones Copy Share Image
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page,… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has… — Alber Elbaz 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
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
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120… — Stephen Colbert 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
Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm… — Bob Dylan 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
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis 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
I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Anything, even the conceptually most complex material, can be written for general audiences without any dumbing down. Of course you have to… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — George R. R. Martin 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