Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life… to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

About Dave Kellett

Dave Kellett is the cartoonist of Drive and Sheldon, a co-director of the documentary Stripped, and a co-host of the podcast ComicLab. He has been nominated for a Hugo, various Eisners, various Harveys, and won a Reuben Award.

More quotations from Dave Kellett

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

—Dave Kellett

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

—Dave Kellett

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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come."

—Dave Kellett

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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

—Dave Kellett

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More quotations tagged with “books”

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

—Cicero

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

—Christopher Morley

books

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

—Charles W. Eliot

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

—Charles De Secondat

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History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.