Wendy Lesser

Quotes

• “The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is...”
• “Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling th...”
• “When it comes to literature, we are all groping in the dark, even the writer. Especially the writer. And that is a good ...”
• “I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of ple...”