It's not that long, but if you don't have the time, this was the best part.

You can read the whole essay, or you can just read this sentence:

When the day of judgment comes therefore and all secrets are laid bare, we shall not be surprised to learn that the reason why we have grown from apes to men, and left our caves and dropped our bows and arrows and sat round the fire and talked and given to the poor and helped the sick—the reason why we have made shelter and society out of the wastes of the desert and the tangle of the jungle is simply this—we have loved reading.

—From "The Love of Reading" by Virginia Woolf, The Guardian, 17 January 2009