Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

Quotes

• “[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading...”
• “...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren...”
• “Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishe...”
• “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't l...”
• “You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”
• “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”