Common Reading Experience

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

“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)