Actually Quote by 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

“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

“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

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Italo Calvino

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

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to…

— Nick Hornby

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you…

— Douglas Coupland