What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
A. S. ByattYou can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A. S. ByattCoherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
A. S. Byatt