You're Only Good If You Can Do

A Reader Is Entitled To Believe What He Or She Believes Is Consonant With The Facts Of The Book. It Is Not Unusual That Readers Take Away Something That Is Spiritually At Variance From What I Myself Experienced. That's Not To Say Readers Make Up The Book They Want. We All Have To Agree On The Facts. But Readers Bring Their Histories And All Sets Of Longings. A Book Will Pluck The Strings Of Those Longings Differently Among Different Readers.

Reading Is Probably What Leads Most Writers To Writing.

I Started Reading Literature At 17 Or 18, And I Felt This Extra Beat To Life.

America Beats On You So Hard The Whole Time. You Are Constantly Being Pummeled By Other People's Rights And Their Sense Of Patriotism.

When People Realize They Are Being Listened To, They Tell You Things.