--- title: "12 Sometimes Quotes By Michael Dirda" description: "12 Sometimes quotes by Michael Dirda. Plus more from Michael Dirda and more Sometimes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/michael-dirda-3414_close-friends_close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometim_2313190.png" --- > [Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometimes-call-me-a-literary/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/michael-dirda-3414_close-friends_close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometim_2313190.png) > [People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/people-sometimes-think-that-i-bring-home-all-these-old-books-because/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/michael-dirda-3414_better_people-sometimes-think-that-i-bring-home_1852646.png) > [The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/the-world-is-a-library-of-strange-and-wonderful-books-and-sometimes/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/michael-dirda-3414_book_the-world-is-a-library-of-strange-and-wo_1621635.png) > [Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/because-of-kipling-i-ve-sometimes-wondered-about-keeping-a-mongoose/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/909/michael-dirda-3414_cobra_because-of-kipling-i-ve-sometimes-wonder_2669404.png) > [Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/fiction-is-a-house-with-many-stately-mansions-but-also-one-in-which/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/051/michael-dirda-3414_fiction_fiction-is-a-house-with-many-stately-man_453544.png) > [I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/i-m-sometimes-willing-to-put-in-vast-even-inordinate-amounts-of-time/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/michael-dirda-3414_find_i-m-sometimes-willing-to-put-in-vast-eve_1227850.png) > [I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/i-sometimes-lie-awake-at-night-and-try-to-imagine-what-would-be-the/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/michael-dirda-3414_awake_i-sometimes-lie-awake-at-night-and-try-t_85372.png) > [Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/sometimes-the-very-best-of-all-summer-books-is-a-blank-notebook-get/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecc/michael-dirda-3414_beach_sometimes-the-very-best-of-all-summer-bo_586229.jpg) > [I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/i-don-t-think-of-myself-as-a-critic-at-all-i-m-a-reviewer-and/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/795/michael-dirda-3414_books_i-don-t-think-of-myself-as-a-critic-at-a_457190.png) > [When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/when-i-talk-to-friends-and-editors-about-possible-projects-especially/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48d/michael-dirda-3414_come_when-i-talk-to-friends-and-editors-about_3200447.png) > [In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/in-plato-at-the-googleplex-rebecca-newberger-goldstein-set-out-to/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/michael-dirda-3414_authority_in-plato-at-the-googleplex-rebecca-newbe_1569074.jpg) > [Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-likely-to-disappear-in-a/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg) ## Other authors on Sometimes ## More by Michael Dirda > [Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-likely-to-disappear-in-a/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/i-sometimes-lie-awake-at-night-and-try-to-imagine-what-would-be-the/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/to-my-mind-dear-brutus-stands-halfway-between-shakespeare-s-a/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/the-goal-of-a-just-society-should-be-to-provide-satisfying-work-with/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/most-lyric-poetry-is-about-love-whether-yearned-after-fulfilled-or/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/books-by-their-very-nature-and-variety-help-us-grow-in-empathy-for/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/my-gift-if-that-s-not-too-grandiose-a-term-is-one-for-describing/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/once-we-know-the-plot-and-its-surprises-we-can-appreciate-a-book-s/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/my-wife-tells-me-i-should-check-out-downton-abbey-but-i-gather-that/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/a-reviewer-s-lot-is-not-always-an-easy-one-i-can-remember-flogging/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/i-once-read-that-in-vaudeville-it-was-often-the-straight-guy-who-got/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/from-the-late-19th-to-the-early-20th-century-the-december-issue-of/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/neither-my-mom-nor-my-dad-ever-bought-me-any-comic-books-certainly/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/for-me-the-two-weeks-between-christmas-and-twelfth-night-have-come-to/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) > [I've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a fan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/i-ve-always-liked-an-easygoing-colloquial-style-i-like-the-kind-of/) [Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sometimes/michael-dirda/#itemlist", "name": "12 Sometimes Quotes By Michael Dirda", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Dirda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometimes-call-me-a-literary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/michael-dirda-3414_close-friends_close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometim_2313190.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/michael-dirda-3414_close-friends_close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometim_2313190.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/michael-dirda-3414_close-friends_close-friends-or-those-in-my-pay-sometim_2313190.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a…” — Michael Dirda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Dirda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/people-sometimes-think-that-i-bring-home-all-these-old-books-because/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/michael-dirda-3414_better_people-sometimes-think-that-i-bring-home_1852646.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/michael-dirda-3414_better_people-sometimes-think-that-i-bring-home_1852646.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/michael-dirda-3414_better_people-sometimes-think-that-i-bring-home_1852646.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a…” — Michael Dirda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Dirda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/the-world-is-a-library-of-strange-and-wonderful-books-and-sometimes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/michael-dirda-3414_book_the-world-is-a-library-of-strange-and-wo_1621635.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/michael-dirda-3414_book_the-world-is-a-library-of-strange-and-wo_1621635.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/michael-dirda-3414_book_the-world-is-a-library-of-strange-and-wo_1621635.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the…” — Michael Dirda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. 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