“PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It’s not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others and many of them mutually contradictory. To pass the time. To savor the existence of time. To escape… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It’s not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others and many… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock:… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
