“The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“English majors want the joy of seeing the world through the eyes of people who—let us admit it—are more sensitive, more articulate,… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing.... Nietzsche feared that… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“To be happily married, as I've been fortunate enough to be, is to be a partner in a conversation that can last a full… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the Mono-Culture").” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“[Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he won't work.… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
