The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.
I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.
What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.
Who learns most from a good book is the author.