School inculcates the bad habit of finishing books, as if they were assignments.
Nov 112021
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Oct 202021
To fall out of love with a writer is the first step toward understanding him.
Oct 152021
The Zeitgeist is everywhere, but especially in bad books.
Oct 122021
The trouble with reading the news is that you start to believe it.
Sep 292021
Books that are buried need not be burned.
Jul 262021
Reading great authors improves your writing by making you desperately unhappy with it.
Jul 192021
There exists in all men a thirst for the hunt, for predator stalking prey inexorably until it is caught and torn to shreds, that only reading Jane Austen can slake.
Mar 022021
Quotation device, n. A man whose memory surpasses his wit; whose conversation consists largely or exclusively of other people’s words. Cf. citation device.
Feb 102021
Analogously to Benford’s Law, 90% of the annotations in a used book occur in the first twenty pages.
Jan 072021
It doesn’t matter much which books you burn.