" and said that he still had his evening’s reading.

He did not do justice to a writer unless he read him on consecutive days and for no less than three hours at a sitting.

Otherwise, despite his notetaking and underlining, he lost touch with a book’s inner life and might as well not have begun.

Sometimes, when he unavoidably had to miss a day, he would go back and begin all over again, rather than be nagged by his sense that he was wronging a serious author. "

― Philip Roth , The Ghost Writer