Quotes by Michael Dirda

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Literary critic · American · 1948

American literary critic (born 1948)

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“I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should sav...”
— Michael Dirda
Work Time History

“Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.”
— Michael Dirda
Love Over Fulfilled

“To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and di...”
— Michael Dirda
Reality Mind Night

“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”
— Michael Dirda

“Fiction is, the art of making up something. That's what it's all about, folks. Making stacks of money.”
— Michael Dirda

“Off and on during my life, I have passed sleepless nights in making up lists of the dozen or so books a person might choose to take along if suddenly marooned on a desert island. This is a relative...”
— Michael Dirda