Wendy Lesser Quotes

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.