# Quote — Malcolm Bradbury, Stepping Westward

> Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

- Author: [Malcolm Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury.md)
- Book: [Stepping Westward](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward.md)
- Page: 60
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/reading-someone-elses

## More from this book

> "You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience."

p. 352 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/you-see-you.md)

> [A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.

p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/a-nd-the-traffic.md)

> My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/my-experience-of-ships.md)