You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.