Quotes by : Michael Dirda

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss....

For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading.....

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation....

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales....

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner,....

Despite the rising popularity of the downloadable e-text, I still care about physical books, gravitate....

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas,....

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information.....

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was....

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly....