Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Warning: Novels Might Turn Out to Be Habit-forming
"Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop--one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers--I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding?"--Henrietta Rose-Innes
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LOL - Wonderful quote!
ReplyDeleteI definitely need a bookmark with this printed on it.