A Flashback Quote of the Day

I suspect this will be appreciated by readers and writers, via the Wedgewood Circle:

But what is a good writer up to when he’s writing a book that will give the reader pleasure? First of all, he’s telling the truth. Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition, so that one never recognizes oneself, the deepest part of oneself, in a bad book. — Walker Percy