Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.


Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (1984)


Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like...

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like...

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like...

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like...