“In reading as in other things I have always striven to practice obedience … as far as possible I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.”
You have to keep your eye on the job because words are very sly, the rubbishy ones go into hiding and you have to dig them out—repetition, synonyms, things that simply don’t mean anything.
[Isaak Babel]
“In reading as in other things I have always striven to practice obedience … as far as possible I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.”