Stevie Smith - Further Reading

Famous quotes containing the word reading:

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)