Books Quote by Carl F. Hovde

“Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it’s up to writers to change things.”

— Tim Holtorf

“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

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

— Ruth Rendell

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

— Alfred Kazin

“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“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

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.”

— B.R. Myers

“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance…

— William Goldman

“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.”

— Aman Jassal

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer