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The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
Source: Habitations of the Word, Simon & Schuster 85, quoted by Frank Kermode Adornment and Fantastication NY Times, 10 Mar 85
-- William H Gass, (Jul 30 1924-2017), US novelist, philosopher, literary critic; He is best known for his experimental story collection In The Heart of the Heart of the Country, 1968.