My longest love affair: with a book.

My longest love affair: with a book.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.