Virginia Woolf On Reading

“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions … After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The Battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself.”

~ Virginia Woolf, 1882 – 1941

When I first read this it definitely resonated, as I always feel  that if...