On Reading (2)

“Like all true reader-addicts, I have had to resign myself to two inescapable truths: Life produces so many interruptions that I can’t spend all my time reading; and life is also so short that I can’t read everything that I want to, which is everything.”

-Doris Betts, from Remarkable Reads - 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading; essay originally published in the Raleigh News & Observer