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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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“Your reading should be fun. We only call them literary works. Really, though, it's all a form of play. So play, Dear Reader, play. And fare thee well.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“Something else that we should bear in mind has to do with the speed of composition. The few pages of this chapter have taken you a few minute to read; they have taken me, I'm sorry to say, days and days to write.
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Even assuming equal levels of knowledge about the subject, who probably has the most ideas - you in five minutes of reading or me in five days of stumbling around? All I'm really saying is that we readers sometimes forget how long literary composition can take and how very much lateral thinking can go on in that amount of time.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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Even assuming equal levels of knowledge about the subject, who probably has the most ideas - you in five minutes of reading or me in five days of stumbling around? All I'm really saying is that we readers sometimes forget how long literary composition can take and how very much lateral thinking can go on in that amount of time.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“John Barth discusses an Egyptian papyrus complaining that all the stories have been told and that therefore nothing remains for the contemporary write but to retell them. That papyrus describing the postmodern condition is forty-five hundred years old.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is ignorance, which is no sin; ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“We all learn from each other when we read and discuss literature, and our readings change based on those discussions. I know mine do, in all sorts of ways. But that doesn't mean I abandon my own viewpoint, and neither should you.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“You need to take ownership of your reading. It's yours. It's special. It is exactly like nobody else's in the whole world.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“Reading, as I have said elsewhere, is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
