It's #WorldBookDay again... 
"Yes, Mary McCarthy is a much neglected novelist now and that's a shame..."
"Oh it's nothing. It's just... I always become emotional when you mention the short stories of Flaubert."
"Gee it really is hard to argue against Emile Durkheim...
"Oh you just can't compare the works of Greil Marcus to the writing of Lester Bangs. It's like cultural chalk and musical cheese..."
"'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.' Wow. Just... wow!"
"My Aeolic Greek is a little rusty, but if that isn't a motto of Sappho then it sure should be."
"No madam, I'm not that J.D. Salinger..."
"Could you hold my Balzac? I need to find my bicycle clips..."
"Then we throw our manuscripts into the fire and that's the end of the writer's retreat. Next year in Montreal!"
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