Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!