Donald Trump

Samuel Johnson said of Samuel Richardson's novels that, 'one must read them for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.'

One way of reading, and of distinguishing good writing from bad, is to enter the spirit of the time in which the thing was written by reading the thing out loud, as I'm doing with Stern's, 'A Sentimental Journey.'

It's one thing to hear something that's been well written and another to see what's been poorly said once it's been written, and to know the difference between the two.