A Well-chosen Book Saves You From Everything,

By Making Time To Read, Like Making Time To Love, We Expand Our Time For Living.

If You`re Wondering How You`ll Find Time, It Means You Don`t Really Want To Read. Because Nobody`s Ever Got Time. Children Certainly Haven`t, Nor Have Teenagers Or Grown-ups. Life Always Gets In The Way. <...> Time To Read Is Always Time Stolen. <...> Stolen From What? From The Tyranny Of Living.”- P.125

Once A Book Falls Into Our Possession, It Is Ours, The Same Way Children Lay Their Claim: 'that's My Book.' As If It Were Organically Part Of Them. That Must Be Why We Have So Much Trouble Returning Borrowed Books. It's Not Exactly Theft (of Course Not, We're Not Thieves, What Are You Implying?); It's Simply A Slippage In Ownership Or, Better Still, A Transfer Of Substance. That Which Belonged To Someone Else Becomes Mine When I Look At It. And If I Like What I Read, Naturally I'll Have Difficulty Giving It Back.

I've Never Had Time To Read. But No One Ever Kept Me From Finishing A Novel I Loved.

But Reading Is Different, Reading Is Something You Do. With Tv, And Cinema For That Matter, Everything's Handed To You On A Plate, Nothing Has To Be Worked At, They Just Spoon-feed You. The Picture, The Sound, The Scenery, The Atmospheric Music In Case You Haven't Understood What The Director's On About... The Creaking Door That Tells You To Be Stiff. You Have To Imagine It All When You're Reading.