A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.


The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) - ISBN: 9781429923941

Sven Birkerts Quotes

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.