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Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.

At First, Students Tend To Freeze At The First Effort. The Breakthrough Comes When They Realize That They Can Make It Better - Can Identify What Their Purposes Were And Realize Better Ways To Achieve Those Purposes.

It's Amazing How, Age After Age, In Country After Country, And In All Languages, Shakespeare Emerges As Incomparable.

John Updike Is Always Fun. And One Of My Former Students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, Another Former Student.

I Think Most Of The Things I Published Have Been Published Out Of Desperation, Not Because They Were Perfected.