I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains. — William Benton Clulow 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 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
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
Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda 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
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres 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
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make… — Jared Padalecki 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
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am… — Ben Stein 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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