I Read In Order To

I'm Not Afraid Of Facts, I Welcome Facts But A Congeries Of Facts Is Not Equivalent To An Idea. This Is The Essential Fallacy Of The So-called "scientific" Mind. People Who Mistake Facts For Ideas Are Incomplete Thinkers; They Are Gossips.

The Power Of Language, It Seems To Me, Is The Only Kind Of Power A Writer Is Entitled To.

Literature Is An Instrument Of A Culture, Not A Summary Of It.

It Isn't The Instrument That Influences High-minded Or Low-minded; It's The Quality Of Mind Itself.

Novels Are Routinely Denigrated When Characters Are Not Found To Be Likable. Is Raskolnikov Likable? Is King Lear? The Plethora Of Such Naive Readers Testifies To A Failure Of Imagination - The Capacity To See Into Unfamiliar Lives, Motives, Feelings - And This Failure Must, At Least In Part, Be The Failure Of The Teaching Of Literature In The Schools.