Richard Scarry Quotes

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

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

People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

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

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

Build something with enduring value.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.