I Wanted To Live Among Books.

Every Text Assumes A Reader.

Each Book Was A World Unto Itself, And In It I Took Refuge.

In Every Literate Society, Learning To Read Is Something Of An Initiation, A Ritualized Passage Out Of A State Of Dependency And Rudimentary Communication.

Unpacking Books Is A Revelatory Activity.

A Writer Stops Writing The Moment He Or She Puts The Last Full Stop To Their Text, And At That Point The Book Is In Limbo And Doesn't Come To Life Until The Reader Picks It Up And The Reader Flips The Pages.