Why I read

So, what has prompted me to write about my reading motivations?  Well, I’ll tell you!

In addition to being lousy at blogging so far this year, I haven’t been so great at keeping up with Facebook and Twitter, either.  This means I spend a lot of time playing catch-up.  During one of my crazy bursts of catch-up reading, I found the following tweets in my stream:

And I got to thinking: Why do I read?

More literary thoughts

 

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction.  No, read in order to live.  –Gustave Flaubert

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?  –Henry Ward Beecher

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.  –George R.R. Martin

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