Robertson Davies Quote

There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring to pregnant women, or the newly dead.


A Voice from the Attic (1960)


There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of...

There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of...

There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of...

There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of...