Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely,…

— Samuel Johnson

“When you read a good book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it” —”

— Julia Barnes

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be…

— Valeria Luiselli

“All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.”

— Sidney Dark

“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.”

— Nelson Algren

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

“Every book your read is an opportunity for self-growth and expansion.”

— Rachel V Perry

“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination”

— Eudora Welty

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.”

— Alan Jacobs

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller