Great Book Quotes

Great Book Quote of the day

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

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. You will know everything.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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 book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

A great book is like great evil.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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 hard to tell the difference.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

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 school, when I was 15 years old.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

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 embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Great books conserve time.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

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 and different each time you read it.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.