Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.
Feb 172017
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Dec 272016
There are ways to praise a book that discourage reading it.
Nov 112016
If you believe the reviewers when they call you a genius, you will believe them when they call you a fool.
Oct 272016
Where books are burned, they are taken seriously.
Oct 142016
There is a special reverence for literature found only in those who have spent their whole lives watching television.
Oct 132016
An unending series of plausible occurrences is impossible in life, and insisted on in fiction.
Sep 292016
I can skip the one book I must read if I read only one book this year, having read more than one book this year.
Sep 282016
The novel often triumphs as a lived experience and always fails as a recollected one.
Sep 122016
To study ethics, read fiction, not philosophy.
Jun 172016
It is not easy for a woman to win an author’s heart; she has to read his books.