Book Quote by Nick Hornby

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we…

— Italo Calvino

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich…

— Italo Calvino

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read…

— Sigrid Nunez

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of…

— Alexei Panshin

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you…

— Alan Bennett

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong

There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled…

— Sara Craven

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

— Hugo Chavez

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions…

— Jorge Luis Borges