Beloved Quote by Edith Wharton

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal…

— Ezra Pound

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

— John Boyne

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

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

— Italo Calvino

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

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

— Alan Bennett

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

— Italo Calvino

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

— Alfred Kazin

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

— Mark Twain

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by…

— Jean-Louis Barrault