... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.
I don't read a lot of books.
I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
