“He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it, unless it's too awful to renounce. And this isn't. Or is it? These gummy spots of… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.” — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility, allow them… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will - the portcullis… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it,… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in the 1970s,… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
