“turn off your television and read a book!”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“It was the kind of libraryhe had only read about in books.”

“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ”

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

“To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.”

“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.”