Alive Quote by Alfred Kazin

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

A classic is a book that remains in print

— Mark Van Doren

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

— Alan Bennett

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

— Mark Twain

“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

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

— Mark Twain

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never…

— Edith Wharton

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years…

— Jeff Kinney

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

— Italo Calvino

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

— Italo Calvino

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

— Ruth Rendell