I'd Rather Be Reading

If reading is a treat for you, it’s a good idea to make time for it.

Literature doesn’t just make us smarter, however; it makes us us, shaping our consciences and our identities.

Joseph Brodsky said in his acceptance speech for the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, “Though we can condemn . . . the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books, we are powerless when it comes to [the worst crime against literature]: that of not reading the books. For that . . . a person pays with his whole life . . . a nation . . . pays with its history.”

They were looking at letters but seeing words.

the love of books was a wonderful gift.

I was a lover, not a writer.

The love of reading that has passed down through generations of my family is the greatest gift that I could imagine and the greatest legacy I can leave my child.

When we read together, our hearts beat as one