Goodreads Quote of the Day for Friday

Created: 2014-11-07 13:13 Updated: 2014-11-07 13:13 Notebook: Famous Quotes

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Stephen Greenblatt

Happy 71st birthday, Stephen Greenblatt! The Pulitzer Prize winner is one of the founders of New Historicism and wrote a popular biography of William Shakespeare titled Will in the World.


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