A Reader's Manifesto Quotes

“Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.”
― B.R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose

“. . . Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had had to puzzle repeatedly over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was "That, my dear, is called reading." Sorry, my dear Toni, but it's actually called bad writing. Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid; no one of Oprah's intelligence ever had to puzzle over what Joseph Conrad was trying to say in a particular sentence.”
― B.R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose

“Literature need not answer every question it raises, but the questions themselves should be clear.”
― B.R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose

“Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid.”
― B.R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose