The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It’s not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others and many… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock:… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
