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Reader Quotes by Paul Theroux
- The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
- I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet…
- The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with…
- I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense,…
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- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden