Quotes by Eagleton, Terry

It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-ri >>

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex int >>

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revo >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistanc >>

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who rea >>

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel >>

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry