There are ways to praise a book that discourage reading it.
Dec 272016
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
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.
Oct 132016
An unending series of plausible occurrences is impossible in life, and insisted on in fiction.
Sep 292016
I can skip the one book I must read if I read only one book this year, having read more than one book this year.
Sep 282016
The novel often triumphs as a lived experience and always fails as a recollected one.
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.