Quotes by : Adam Gopnik

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening,....

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things....

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes....

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming....

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience,....

I remember looking out the window of the little maid's room where we had been installed, seeing the lights....

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive.....

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an....

This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged....