Classic Books Quotes

When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'Stuart Little' by EB White, 'A Cricket in Times Square,' all the Beverly Cleary books.

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

I’m rather apt to read old books than new.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A classic is a book that remains in print

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

Great books conserve time.

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

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.