I’ve been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume – four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall – made by a company called Denbigh. Michael Dirda Read Quote
Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself – of poems and stories and essays – delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters. Michael Dirda Read Quote
When I come to visit my mom – every two or three months – I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She’s always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son. Michael Dirda Read Quote
At any given moment, I’ve always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida. Michael Dirda Read Quote
I’m sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me. Michael Dirda Read Quote
With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don’t ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone. Michael Dirda Read Quote
My wife tells me I should check out ‘Downton Abbey’, but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature. Michael Dirda Read Quote
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. Michael Dirda Read Quote
My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn’t answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she’s mostly gray and white. Michael Dirda Read Quote
In truth, I’m not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply mourned by all who knew him, was just about the only pet I’ve ever really loved. Michael Dirda Read Quote
