Thursday, 13 March 2008

Read to Luxuriate

This is not a blog post per se -- yes, I know I've been remiss -- but just thought to share one of the nicer quotes about reading I've come across recently:


"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate".
-- by Henry Miller, an American writer and painter (1891-1980)

Nice. Gives a whole new dimension of meaning to the phrase "luxury read".

And way more impactful than the recent books I've been reading. I'm really up against a dry spell. Hopefully the drought breaks soon.

Over and out!

1 comment:

The Book Ninja said...

That's a nice quote Lay Suan. I'll remember that! :)

I think luxury reads apply more for novels and fiction in general. Non-fiction books don't give me that luxuriate feel, but the insights that we glean from some of them are priceless.