Classic Book Quotes

Classic Book Quote of the day

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read