Joseph Epstein - Reading Quotes

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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. Literarily, reading about food is more interesting than reading about sex.

Joseph Epstein

Then again, the relative success of the essay may also have something to do with the diminishing national attention span. These days one sees a novel of four hundred pages, sighs, and says, "There goes a week of my reading life.".

Joseph Epstein

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

Joseph Epstein