Best Great Book Sayings

127 Great Book quotes by 105 unique authors

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. — Louis L'Amour
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls… — George Edward Woodberry
Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is… — Joan Erikson
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book… — Shauna James Ahern
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. — Steve Leveen
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind… — Susan Sontag
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new… — Josh Radnor
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge.… — Sivananda
Great books conserve time. — Holbrook Jackson
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. — Bertrand Russell
I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The… — Stephen Colbert
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would… — Augusten Burroughs
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big… — Anne Enright
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high… — Michael Cunningham
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art… — Katherine Paterson
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us. — Guy Gavriel Kay
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly… — Steve Leveen
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were… — C.S. Lewis
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys… — Ben Stiller
Nature's great book is written in mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it… — Evelyn Waugh

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