Report, if you have a problem with this page“ Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.p.20 ”
Nina Sankovitch
From : Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading