Lauren Conrad Quotes

I definitely don't aspire to writing that's 'timeless,' whatever that means.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

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

Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.

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 can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time.

Literature is news that stays news.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.