Book Quote by Franz Kafka

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake…

— Franz Kafka

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake…

— Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake…

— Franz Kafka

“Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book.”

— Mary Sisney

“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.”

— Lewis Buzbee

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

— Franz Kafka

“If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling, perpetually augmented,…

— Virginia Woolf

“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all…

— Robin Sloan

“When you read a book, its like a viewing in your head.”

— Travion Rucker

“If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.”

— Meg Cabot

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us…

— Franz Kafka