Quotes About Literary Classics

#1. Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Edward Abbey

#2. For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

Os Guinness

#3. Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.

Cecil Brown

#4. Tell him what? Kat's a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara)
Tara! (Kat)
Oh, all right. She's so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Barack Obama

#6. Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Jean Rhys

#7. Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

Bob Bergen

#8. That town sits on the coals of the earth, at the very mouth of hell. They say that when people from there go to hell, they come back for a blanket.

Juan Rulfo

#9. That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.

Anthony Lane

#10. You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

William Landay

#11. Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

China Mieville

#12. Barrabas came to us by the sea.

Isabel Allende

#13. Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Lasse Hallstrom

#14. In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#15. What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.

Claude Calame