Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milto… - Wendy Lesser
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milto…
- Wendy Lesser
The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will … - Wendy Lesser
The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will …
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. - Wendy Lesser
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. - Wendy Lesser
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my charact… - Wendy Lesser
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my charact…
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from readin… - Wendy Lesser
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from readin…
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. - Wendy Lesser
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
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