William Brinkley - I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily,

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.

- William Brinkley

source: William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin

topic: Book, Character, Mean