“Classics stay classic and become more so over time. Think of it as compound interest for creative work.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“If you look at the books that are backlist classics now, they were almost invariably best-sellers when they were new. The Catcher in the Rye. The Sun Also Rises. The Great Gatsby. These books were not discovered by the academy over centuries. They were sensations! Even Virginia Woolf was a best-sell…”— Michael Pietsch, vanityfair.com