A Reader on Reading

This last is of the essence. For me, words on a page give the world coherence.

lies between the covers of a book

We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything: in the landscape, in the skies, in the faces of others, and, of course, in the images and words that our species creates. We read our own lives and those of others, we read the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, we read pictures and buildings, we read that which