Mark Twain - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Henry Miller - Italo Calvino - Richard Attenborough -
Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read. Mark Twain
Classicism is health; romanticism is disease. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every men with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. Richard Attenborough