Book Quote by Italo Calvino

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

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of…

— Alexei Panshin

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

— Italo Calvino

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

— Alan Bennett

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 a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

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 that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— 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

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

— Mark Twain