Best Great Books Quotes
52 Great Books quotes by 44 unique authors
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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
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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
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
— B.F. Skinner
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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
— Mortimer Adler
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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
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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
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There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
— Jo Walton
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great books are the ones we need
— Charles Bukowski
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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
— Charles Bukowski
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In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may…
— Norton Juster
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Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
— Kathryn Stockett
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I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s…
— Jo Walton
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I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
— Siri Hustvedt
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
— John Green
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A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing…
— Alber Elbaz
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and…
— Eddie Trunk
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
— Orlando Bloom
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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great…
— John Green
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions…
— Oscar Wilde
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The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the…
— Robertson Davies
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Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer.
— Mark Twain
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