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“(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness of abstraction…

— D.H. Lawrence

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

“I don't think it has ever occurred to her that a text is written above all to be read and to arouse emotions in…

— Muriel Barbery

“They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters…

— Brian Francis Slattery

“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”

— Kevin Hearne

“Letters were safe. They were words, easy to read if enjoyable and stop reading if hurtful.”

— Kasie West

“She must sense we’re annoyed because she unleashes a flurry of words that make me think at one point she’s speaking in a different…

— Alretha Thomas

“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't…

— Max Barry

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

— Joe Hill