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Great Book Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written."
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Bukowski quote: "great books are the ones we need"
great books are the ones we need Charles Bukowski
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." 1810-1860, Minister Theodore Parker
Charles Bukowski quote: "I could read the great books but the great books don't..."
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. Charles Bukowski
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Theodore Parker
The books that help you most are those which make you think the 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. Pablo Neruda
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 not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. Robertson Davies
Neil Jordan quote: "There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The..."
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? Neil Jordan
It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[…] Michael Chabon
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. Joseph Joubert
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it. Abraham Lincoln
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 alive, no matter what else might be going on. Kurt Vonnegut
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 the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity. Pat Conroy
Mortimer Adler quote: "The truly great books are the few books that are over..."
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. Mortimer Adler
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand. Edward Abbey

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