Been Quote by John Green

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding…

— Sean Bean

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that…

— Harold Bloom

“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and felt like,…

— Scott Herring

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with…

— Rick Riordan

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

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

— Magnus Carlsen

“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

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you…

— Alan Bennett

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag