Ancient Quote by Joanne Harris

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ...[G]reat scholars…

— C.S. Lewis

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the…

— Adam Hamilton

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“It is as difficult to suppose a person intending to write a modern English, as to suppose him writing an ancient English, novel; that…

— Henry James

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

— Erin Morgenstern

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.

— Martha Nussbaum

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

— F. F. Bruce