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Reader Quotes by Eudora Welty
- The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that…
- There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see…
- My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books.…
- Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity…
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- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks
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- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche