John Updike Is Always Fun. And One

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.

At First, Students Tend To Freeze At The First Effort. The Breakthrough Comes When They Realize That They Can Make It Better - Can Identify What Their Purposes Were And Realize Better Ways To Achieve Those Purposes.

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.

The Survival Of Artistic Modes In Which We Recognize Ourselves, Identify Ourselves And Place Ourselves Will Survive As Long As Humanity Survives.