"I still have to read twenty novels for my qualifying exam. It's maddening to read not for pleasure but only to finish, especially Hardy's novels. They refuse simply to go where you know they are going. In James' The Ambassadors I counted sixteen uses of the phrase 'hung fire' before I stopped reading. I'm a slow reader and there is too much to read, especially this way, without pleasure or interest. The night before his law exams, Malcolm read The Brothers Karamazov. He failed his exams, but that's the proper spirit in which to read novels."
- Feb.3, '65, The Diaries of Leonard Michaels 1961-1995.
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