"What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time."

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The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

— D. H. Lawrence