Haley Annabelle's Reviews > The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

This definitely makes me even more eager to read Lewis' An Experiment in Criticism, as many of the quotes were taken from those essays.
I enjoyed a lot of the quotes in here, even if I disagree with his sentiments on Dumas,
and his idea that if you love a book you will read it every 10 years,
and the fact he said you could skip chapters.

but other than that, good book of quotes.

"When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with someone else, even though it sometimes produces rather fierce arguments."

"What is the point of keeping in touch with the contemporary scene? Why should one read authors one doesn't like because they happen to be alive at the same time as oneself? One might as well read everyone who had the same job or the same colored hair, or the same income, or the same chest measurements, as far as I can see."

"I tried to read... the Three Musketeers, but not only got tired but also found it disgusting... I don't think there is a single passage to show that Dumas had ever seen a cloud, a road, or a tree."

"If only one had time to read a little more: we either get shallow &broad or narrow and deep."

"A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. God reading becomes possible when you need not consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling."