Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
I think the only way to achieve something that's classic is to be in the moment. You don't sit around and think, 'Oh, I hope this is remembered forever!' You just have to be honest, and I think that requires being in the moment.
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.
That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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