Best Great Book Quotations

127 Great Book quotes by 105 unique authors

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't… — Germaine Greer
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do… — Robertson Davies
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen… — Robertson Davies
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach… — Joseph Joubert
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children… — Michael Morpurgo
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but… — Pablo Neruda
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. — B.F. Skinner
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the… — Ben Stein
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little… — Michael Eric Dyson
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be… — Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look… — Saint Augustine
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an… — Clifton Fadiman
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad… — J. Patrick Lewis
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Mortimer Adler
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read. — Markus Zusak
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write… — Garth Stein
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. — Jo Walton
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies… — Pat Conroy
great books are the ones we need — Charles Bukowski

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