Classic Quote by Gina Prince-Bythewood

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

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

— Mark Twain

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 survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

— Alfred Kazin

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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 has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

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

— Alan Bennett

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

— Patricia Field

Not everybody has things that become classics.

— Gary Wright