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A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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