Book Quote by Magnus Carlsen

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

— Boris Spassky

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

— Vasily Smyslov

I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a lot of…

— Ricky Rubio

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and…

— Vladimir Kramnik

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned,…

— Vladimir Putin

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious…

— Karl Marlantes

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

— Boris Spassky

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton