Maria’s Reviews > Orlando > Status Update

It's really exciting to read about a writer. And when the writer meets another writer talking about other writers!

"A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, for the palsied and dying... for once the disease of reading...
but though the sight of it gave him extreme delight, he had never dared show it even to his mother, since to write...was, he knew, for a nobleman an inexplicable disgrace.