"A great deal of writing is not "plotted"—most of my essays have no plot structure, they are a ramble in the woods, or…"

"People who read tend to commit fewer s, I guess. I think that one of the reasons for that isn’t just that they’re bri…"

"Though fairy-stories are of course by no means the only medium of Escape, they are today one of the most obvious and …"

"Real life is overrated. But as readers we can escape to any elsewhere our heart desires – and at present all my heart…"

"When the seas of life get rough, some readers look for escape, while others dive right in. So it is , when many book …"

"The present generation has this ingrained weakness, that it thinks that nothing discovered by the moderns is worthy t…"

"The very best proof of how much writing mattered was the forgeries. Forgery had been an ecclesiastical habit for cent…"

"Such forgeries were common enough... So unenviable was the reputation that priests had acquired in this matter that I…"

"For the majority of readers, Latin American fantastic literature operates under the tutelage of the great masters: Jo…"

"Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge."