And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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