Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

“Though a thousand miles apart, two lovers destined to meet are joined by a common thread.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)

“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)