Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Author Encounters
A
Life Possibilities
L
Reading can be … an introduction to what is possible in life.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Talking Back to Books
T
She’d never read a book before that had been talked back to.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Literary Commonwealth
L
Literature is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Reading Withdrawal
R
To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Other Lives and Worlds
O
Pass the time? Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Pleasure of Reading
P
One reads for pleasure… It is not a public duty.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Living Through Books
L
Every book she started was like a little life lived elsewhere.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Book Travel
B
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
Reading Adventure
R
At one level reading was a fairy-tale in which encounter with a stranger often leads to adventure…
Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader