“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone what to read, even asking politely, can feel more like an entreaty or an implied judgment or a… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just read every book or even a good chunk of the Truly Important Ones, you would know… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the time. I… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to me now.… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me—many… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final chapters approach,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . .… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“At the office I worked in before that, my required all employees to take a personality test that divided us neatly into one of… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.” — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“To quote Virginia Woolf, “If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone what to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
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