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You're either reading a book or you're not.

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In order to justify their claim on our attention, the organs of mass culture and information are compelled to offer something "new" on a daily, indeed...more

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He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his wor...more

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It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

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Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar dat...more

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The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear...more

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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual space...more

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My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's story of his or her own life. Thi...more

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She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her fre...more

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Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in ...more

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And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone be...more

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Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am ...more