To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing


The Campus Trilogy (ed. Random House, 2012) - ISBN: 9781448129805

David Lodge Quotes

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one ...

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one ...

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one ...

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one ...