Bit Quote by Randy Newman

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing…

— Carl Hiaasen

Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind…

— Mya

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

— Natalie Prass

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

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels, if I…

— Carol Drinkwater

Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story…

— Michael Morpurgo

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

“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

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing…

— Jackson Browne

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

— Hannah Kent