"Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert ..."
- Tara Bray Smith
"Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them."
"I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books."
"I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. "