The novel often triumphs as a lived experience and always fails as a recollected one.
Sep 282016
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
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.
May 302016
Many famous works of literature would have remained obscure if they had been read only as the author intended.
Mar 162016
For diminishing returns read philosophy; for network effects read history.
Mar 082016
Reading is like sauce-making: one does not remember the books so much as become infused with them.
Jan 212016
We seem almost naturally to revere books, for which reading them is the only cure.
Jan 052016
If it can be translated, it’s not literature.
Sep 302015
To read well is to let the book read you.
Sep 282015
He who can, writes books; he who cannot, writes books for children.