“As illustrated by Oscar Wilde, there is a kind of antinomy between reading and creating, since every reader runs the risk, lost as he is… Read More »Reading vs Creating

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.” – Oscar Wilde (Quoted in How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read)

“To the critic, the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious… Read More »Critic as Creator

“For the critic, thus, literature or art occupy the same secondary position as nature for the writer or painter. Their function is not to serve… Read More »The Role of the Critic

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness” – Montaigne (Quoted in How to Talk about Books You… Read More »Transient Knowledge

“Even a prodigious reader never has access to more than an infinitesimal fraction of the books that exist.” – Pierre Bayard, How to Talk about… Read More »Limitations of Reading

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” – Fight Club (1999 Film)

“Don’t repeat yourself.” – Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat… Read More »Choices and Sacrifices

“It’s impossible to learn to plow by reading books” – “Old Russian Proverb” via Richard Linklater, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books