A reader caught up in reading... he wrote in a book

God created man as a reader, so the first word in the Qur'an was revealed in the Cave of Hira: Read, and the first phrase in the Torah: In the beginning was the word. Of course we need books that change our destinies, or as Kafka says, books that bite and prick us, but there is no recipe for direct access to these books. They come across you, and if you cling to books as a friend and teacher, the...