Art Quote by Richard Haynes

I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the…

— Rebecca Serle

I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant.…

— Prue Leith

I'd read a classics book on the bus when I was at York.

— Graham Potter

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

— Rudolf Flesch

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to…

— Nick Hornby

“If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of…

— Italo Calvino

“In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too…

— Philip Roth

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists…

— George Andrew Olah

“Reading is like breathing. Reading the classics is like breathing highly oxygenated air.”

— Jane Greensmith

I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading…

— Jaume Cabre

“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to…

— Robert MacNeil

“Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life…

— Nathaniel Philbrick