It is not easy for a woman to win an author’s heart; she has to read his books.
Jun 172016
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
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.
Sep 232015
I ask one thing of literature: that it draw blood.
Sep 212015
The punster, the grammarian, the nitpicking fact-checker all display contempt for what is being said. They counterfeit attention.