Classic Reading Quotes

#1. Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

Anne Graham Lotz

#3. Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

Aman Jassal

#4. With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

Neil Gaiman

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

Italo Calvino

#6. It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#7. I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Brittany Murphy

#8. I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Daniel Silva

#9. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

William Cowper

#10. When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.

Paul Gambaccini

#11. People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.

Lois Lowry

#12. I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

William Shatner

#13. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

#14. This isn't bickering. This is classic mother-daughter communications. I've been reading up on it.

Christina Baker Kline

#15. It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

David Maraniss

#16. I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

James Jones

#17. A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

Aman Jassal

#18. Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Janna Malamud Smith

#19. A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Italo Calvino

#20. Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

B.R. Myers

#21. Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

#22. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books which he has merely skimmed, lapping at them, as the classic proverb puts it; "As the dogs drink of Nilus." Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. Own company, reading a classic British novel, curled

E.L. James

#24. Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

Anthony Esolen

#25. China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#26. I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

Tom Waits

#27. 'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

#28. I apologize. Hi, I'm Agent Sloane Brodie, your Team Leader. I enjoy reading, cozy nights in, and the soothing sounds of classic rock. I also like to browse the Internet for funny cat videos, but deep down, I think I'm more of a dog person.

Charlie Cochet