“Literary interpretation, like virtue, is its own reward. I do it because I like the way I feel when I'm doing it.”

— Stanley Fish

Interview by Mark Bauerlein, " A Solitary Thinker https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Solitary-Thinker/127464," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2001

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