“If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.”

“He looked around at the others....They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now....Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.”

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.”

“The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper”