American Nonrequired Reading

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or reading:

    Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility—the American Dream.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.”
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)