Ancient Quote by 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 book that doesn't have to be written again.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“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 something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

— Mark Twain

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

— Alfred Kazin

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

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 a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

A classic is a book that remains in print

— Mark Van Doren

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 has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

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