Great Book Quotes
What separates a great book from a merely good one is rarely just plot. These quotes describe the feeling of escapism a great book provides, the way it can leave a reader exhausted after living several lives in its pages, and the harder truth that a genuinely great book can still be ignored in its own time. One quote even measures a graphic novel against the standard of great prose literature and finds it wanting, a reminder that greatness in books is judged by demanding, shifting standards.
A great book asks something of its reader beyond passive attention, offering escapism, exhaustion, and the sense of having lived more than one life by the final page.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
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A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
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.
Emotion Quotes
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.
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....
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 think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
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...
Escape Quotes
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my...
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.
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
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.
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone...
Inspiration Quotes
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great...
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?
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.
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all...
Knowledge Quotes
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.
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