The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.
To enjoy reading requires inactivity. What is a needed is a unique confidence that there is nowhere to rush and that the essence of life is not in results, but in processes.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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