Books Quote by Alexei Panshin

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

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

— Italo Calvino

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

— Erica Jong

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

— Joseph Brodsky

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

— Magnus Carlsen

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

— Mark Twain

Classic book is a book which people praise, but do not read.

— Abhishek Tiwari

“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to…

— Nick Hornby