Wendy Lesser

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

— Wendy Lesser

The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot.…

— Wendy Lesser

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that…

— Wendy Lesser

“PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It’s not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others…

— Wendy Lesser

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is…

— Wendy Lesser

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.…

— Wendy Lesser

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware…

— Wendy Lesser

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

— Wendy Lesser

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings…

— Wendy Lesser