Books Quote by Italo Calvino

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius,…

— Andre Aciman

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.”

— Richard Castle

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

— Umberto Eco

“In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to…

— Alexandre Dumas