Sean Patrick Cooper

If reading heightens your responses, shapes your idea of the world, gives you a sense of the purpose of life, then it is not surprising if, over time, reading should come to play a proportionately smaller role in the context of the myriad possibilities it has opened up. The more thoroughly we have absorbed its lessons, the less frequently we need to refer to the user’s manual. 

Geoff Dyer 

We’ll see how it goes when I’m a few more decades deep into my reading career, but I hope that I’ll still be able to experience a text, even into the later stages of my life, that rewrites the user’s manual, sort of speak. Or, at the very least, I hope that I can still read something and be very much changed by it.  It seems a bit closed minded to think that dramatic changes in one’s world view aren’t possible at any point in one’s life, no matter how refined that world view might be.