English class Quote by Susan Sontag

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Not everybody has things that become classics.

— Gary Wright

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

— Magnus Carlsen

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we…

— Italo Calvino

“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

“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

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich…

— Italo Calvino

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong