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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, ...more

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of wha...more

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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Fin...more

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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often ve...more

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The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

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The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. En...more

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The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

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A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put yo...more