“It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.”

Source: How to Be Good

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have…" by Nick Hornby?
Nick Hornby photo
Nick Hornby 110
English novelist 1957

Related quotes

Jodi Picoult photo

“I withdrew further into the World of Warcraft, neglecting my homework and spending all of my free time playing it.”

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer

My Twisted World (2014), Pastimes

Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Emmanuel Macron photo

“Climate change adds further injustice to an already unfair world.”

Emmanuel Macron (1977) 25th President of the French Republic

Cited in: Damian Carrington, "Climate change will determine humanity's destiny, says Angela Merkel" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/15/climate-change-will-determine-humanitys-destiny-says-angela-merkel, The Guardian, 15 November 2017 (page visited on 15 November 2017).
United Nations Climate Change Conference (2017)

Alfred P. Sloan photo
A. M. Klein photo
Goran Višnjić photo
Saint Patrick photo

“For some time I have thought of writing, but I have hesitated until now”

Saint Patrick (385–461) 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland

The Confession (c. 452?)
Context: For some time I have thought of writing, but I have hesitated until now, for truly, I feared to expose myself to the criticism of men, because I have not studied like others, who have assimilated both Law and the Holy Scriptures equally and have never changed their idiom since their infancy, but instead were always learning it increasingly, to perfection, while my idiom and language have been translated into a foreign tongue. So it is easy to prove from a sample of my writing, my ability in rhetoric and the extent of my preparation and knowledge, for as it is said, 'wisdom shall be recognized in speech, and in understanding, and in knowledge and in the learning of truth.

Related topics