Thomas C. Foster quotes:

The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smith didn't think Satan was involved."

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.

History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.

Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.