Mark Edmundson Quotes

#1. Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

Jerry Saltz

#2. My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

Mark Edmundson

#3. Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play - work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

Mark Edmundson

#4. The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

Mark Edmundson

#5. In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

Mark Edmundson

#6. I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

Amy Bloom

#7. I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.

Danny O'Donoghue

#8. How did the students respond to being treated like customers? They didn't seem to mind at all. From what one could see, they loved it.

Mark Edmundson

#9. It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

Claire Keegan

#10. Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the Mono-Culture").

Mark Edmundson

#11. An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.

Ronnie Apteker

#12. Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

Mark Edmundson

#13. At a certain point, professors stopped being usefully sensitive and became more like careful retailers who have it as a cardinal point of doctrine never to piss the customer off.

Mark Edmundson

#14. Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do most of us look up and smile in gratitude and pleasure?

Mark Edmundson