Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt