Universal literacy guarantees an imbecile press.
Sep 292017
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Sep 212017
Influential books usually have a few readers, who usually have a great many.
Jun 092017
Your shelves should not contain the books you’ve read, but the books you’re going to read.
May 162017
Almost no one is worth reading on more than one subject.
Apr 062017
When you find yourself in a book, you lose the book.
Feb 172017
Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.
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.