“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what we can become.” — 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 gracious entrance however strident or discordant some of them may sound, then you will grow and change, and each of these voices will become a constituent part of who you become, an atom of growing being.… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share
“...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
