Lit Trivia

Upon reading Joyce’s Ulysses, his contemporary T. S. Eliot observed: “I wish, for my own sake, that I had not read it… Joyce has single-handedly killed the 19th century.”

“Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!” Nick Hornby, The Believer

"Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?" - Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot