“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.”
“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”
“Adults have an amazing capacity to suck the joy out of such noble pursuits as Reading and Writing until they resemble their favorite pastimes: Working and Suffering.”
“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable.”
“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”
“Reading is being present yesterday and tomorrow, but not right now. Traveling is being present right now, but not right here. Writing is all about reading and traveling, anytime, anywhere.”