“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!”
“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”
“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.”