“ Evelyn Waugh was an illustrator. Poe was a deft portraitist. Hermann Hesse was a skilled painter, as was Strindberg. Emily and Charlotte Brontë drew, as did Goethe, Dostoevsky, George Sand, Victor Hug… Peter Mendelsund
“ Dream vision (Geoffrey Chaucer):And in my slepe I mette, as I lay,How African, right in that selfe arayThat Scipioun him saw before that tydeWas comen, and stood right at my beddes sydePoetic vision (… Peter Mendelsund
“ The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes. Peter Mendelsund
“ Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading. Peter Mendelsund
