Besides, Rereading, Not Reading, Is What Counts.

Sometimes, Looking At The Many Books I Have At Home, I Feel I Shall Die Before I Come To The End Of Them, Yet I Cannot Resist The Temptation Of Buying New Books. Whenever I Walk Into A Bookstore And Find A Book On One Of My Hobbies — For Example, Old English Or Old Norse Poetry — I Say To Myself, “what A Pity I Can’t Buy That Book, For I Already Have A Copy At Home.

That Is What Always Happens: We Never Know Whether We Are Victors Or Whether We Are Defeated.

A Writer's Work Is The Product Of Laziness.

I Think That The Reader Should Enrich What He Is Reading. He Should Misunderstand The Text; He Should Change It Into Something Else.

Art Always Opts For The Individual, The Concrete; Art Is Not Platonic.