Many classics are now read only because so many others have already read them.
May 202015
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Apr 162015
A book that ossifies at exactly the same rate as its readers becomes a beloved contemporary classic.
Apr 132015
Books can also change lives for the worse.
Mar 272015
Reading, unless it’s for writing, is high-class idling.
Feb 182015
There is nothing that everyone should read but a lot that no one should.
Feb 122015
The reader properly resents coincidence. Life does not arrange itself to suit him; why should it arrange itself to suit the author?
Jan 122015
What we call realism in fiction is only a bit of reality-tinsel to decorate the old myths.
Dec 022014
Readers fall in love with villains because authors do.
Dec 012014
Scholarship
Magisterial: Pompous
Brilliant: Unreliable
Valuable: Trivial
Eccentric: Deranged
Classic: Dull
Formidable: Duller
Encyclopedic: Stupefying
Sep 182014
To read well you have to live a little.