3 Edmund Wilson Quotes on Reading

Edmund Wilson quotes on reading

1. In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

6. Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.

8. Wilson is not like other critics; some critics are boring even when they are original; he fascinates even when he is wrong.