If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
