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

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 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

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

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

- Wendy Lesser

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

- Wendy Lesser

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

- Wendy Lesser