Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language read more

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

By words the mind is winged.

By words the mind is winged.

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, read more

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.