Books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!


Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (1984)


Books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having...

Books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having...

Books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having...

Books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having...