Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them; people never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person the author is trying to suggest that all people are like this. The novel is the art of the particular. And I'm talking about a particular person whose development from innocence to guilt, if you like, is his own particular narrative arc. The point is to make that coherent - not to read the book as some kind of simple allegory, but to read it as a story about a person.

The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Whenever I read a Lincoln book, I look to see if there's anything new, and in this case there was.

This has to be a fairy tale because I never read a book like his.