writers-on-reading

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.