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Susan Lowell

  • ... reading is pure. It has the thrill of skiing and the primal satisfaction of food, but you don't fall down, and you don't get fat. I do know a girl who broke her arm reading, but that was because she tried to ride her bicycle at the same time.

    • Susan Lowell,
    • "Reading Up," in Michael Dorris and Emilie Buchwald, eds., The Most Wonderful Books ()

Susan Lowell, U.S. writer

(1950)