Classic Quote by Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing…

— Randy Newman

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

— Carl Sandburg

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

— Ruth Rendell

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

— Lisa Scottoline

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“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

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

— Alfred Kazin

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

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 never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

— Zadie Smith

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that…

— Karen Thompson Walker