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Great books conserve time.
A great book is like great evil.
great books are the ones we need
'The Good Earth' is a great book.
What you don't know would make a great book.
Everything comes from the great book of nature.
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
When I need to decompress, I grab a glass of wine, some popcorn, and a great book.
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
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.
Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.
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.
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.
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 by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
I understand it's great to read a great book, but it's better to live your life. It just helps me. It's uncomfortable at times, but you have to live outside the circle.
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read the same book, it's like it was just written because now what you bring to the experience is so much richer.
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Attention span. What are they talking about? If it's good, it'll drag you in.
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 catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
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 pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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 a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.