"The Uncommon Reader" Quotes
A chance encounter leads Queen Elizabeth II to discover the joy of reading, much to the surprise of her staff and the delight of the public.
fiction | 120 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You don't put your life into your books. You find it there.
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.
Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not.
One only had to look at him to see that he was happier in the library than anywhere else on earth.
Reading, she was to discover, was not as others saw it, a quiet, private occupation. It was a surface on which people rattled their worries, their opinions, a distraction from the stock market, the threat of war.
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
