Quotes from Franco Moretti

Reading 'more' is always a good thing, but not the solution.

What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age: 'the least part of all that ever happened and was spoken was written down, and of what was written only the least part has survived . . .'.

Trees and branches are what nation states cling to; waves are what markets do.