Quotes About Classic Novels

#1. Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

Mervyn Peake

#2. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Samantha Barks

#3. I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Daniel Silva

#4. Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Cynthia Ozick

#5. They made us into a race. We made ourselves into a people. Here

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. It's sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.

Holly Black

#7. nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How

Marcel Proust

#8. I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

Margaret Atwood

#9. The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

Rachel Joyce

#10. It's where my mother hopes to read classic novels again one day when she isn't working nine days a week,

A.S. King

#11. I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

Lois Lowry

#12. My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#13. As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

Patrick Ness