When a new book is published, read an old one. – Samuel Rogers
It doesnt much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. – Samuel Rogers

When a new book is published, read an old one. – Samuel Rogers
It doesnt much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. – Samuel Rogers
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson