“The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop a self. Activities that require time and careful attention, like serious reading, are at risk;… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.” — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.” — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“Happiness is something one can’t explain. You must take my word for it. Troubles enough came afterward, but there was that summer, high and… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him,” Woolf proclaims. “Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.” — David Mikics Copy Share Image
