Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At

Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At Least, Easier Reading.

We Are Human, And Nothing Is More Interesting To Us Than Humanity. The Appeal Of Literature Is That It Is So Thoroughly A Human Thing — By, For And About Human Beings. If You Lose That Focus, You Obviate The Source Of The Power And Permanence Of Literature.

I Think The Hardest Thing To Teach A Student Is That What He Or She Puts Down On Paper Is Changeable. It's Not The Final Thing, It's The First Thing, Which May Just Be The Suggestive, Vague Identification Of Something That You Have To Come Back To And Rewrite.

When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury.