What Can I Get Out of This? Quotes

“What kind of reader does this book want me to be?" is useful precisely because it helps you find your way to meaning even when you dislike or hate or are outraged by a book.”
― Carlo Rotella, What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics

“Literature offer is not only a bottomless repository of ideas—inspiring, awful, useful, funny, hateful, perplexing, terrifying, thrilling, generative, ever-multiplying ideas about how to live and what’s out there in the world and other such essential matters— but also endless opportunities to refine your analytical chops in an encounter with some of the most complex artifacts our species is capable of producing.”
― Carlo Rotella, What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics