“It’s a lot easier to get international writers to come to New York City than to persuade them to take a 20-hour flight to Australia.”
“Few in the church were educated, yet everyone could understand the text, had learnt it off by heart, quoted it. It lent a dignity to our speech, and, I believe, a complexity to our thinking. It is not so very far from the language of King James to the language of Shakespeare.” (via Books Inq)
Font dorks just doesn’t have the same ring.
“By applying evolution-based thinking to fiction, we believe we can invigorate the study of literature, while at the same time mining an untapped source of information for the scientific study of human nature.” (via AL Daily)
“Try not to look too happy. If you never sang in the shower, don’t start now.”
Another claim to The Great American Novel or something.