“Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.” MindSelfBodyReaderAthleteDancerTunesLeapPossessed Author:Lynne Sharon Schwartz
“I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.” GivingKindBookCertainLanguageReaderConscienceConnectionsMysteriousLabelsEcstasyBoresThrillCraveTranscendenceSeekersThrillersThrill Seekers Book:Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books Source: Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
“What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.” BookReaderAvailableLocalsPrintingBindingFeatsTransmissionShipping Book:Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books Source: Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
