Slow Reading in a Hurried Age Quotes

“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”
― David Mikics, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
― David Mikics, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him,” Woolf proclaims. “Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.”
― David Mikics, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

“Happiness is something one can’t explain. You must take my word for it. Troubles enough came afterward, but there was that summer, high and blue, a life in itself.”
― David Mikics, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”
― David Mikics, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age