If You’re That Clever You Can Argue

If The Writer Were More Like A Reader, He’d Be A Reader, Not A Writer. It’s As Uncomplicated As That.

Reading Is A Majority Skill But A Minority Art. Yet Nothing Can Replace The Exact, Complicated, Subtle Communion Between Absent Author And Entranced, Present Reader.

[literature Is] A Process Of Producing Grand, Beautiful, Well-ordered Lies That Tell More Truth Than Any Assemblage Of Facts.

This Was Another Of Our Fears: That Life Wouldn't Turn Out To Be Like Literature.

One Of The Troubles Is This: The Heart Isn't Heart-shaped.