Last night on The Colbert Report with author Ann Patchett debating bricks & mortar book stores vs. buying online:
Colbert: “One of the rare times that I read books is to escape, so I don’t have to talk to people.”
Patchett: “Right. But, if you never, ever talk to people, and you meet all of your needs on the Internet, you wake up one day and you are the Unabomber.”
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
— David Foster Wallace
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:41 AM
I love this! I go to read or write at S’bucks for just this reason. And to movie theaters. And to restaurants. I could live without any of these places, but the dialog in a public space is so much more zesty.