The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.’
There’s a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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