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"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

"…Ever since my first novel, people have had quite a snippy vibe about YA, and it’s almost like: ‘Do you think one day you’ll write a real book?’…"

"FowlesBooks.com—The Official John Fowles web site"

"I mean to indicate the reading of poetry not merely for the sensual ear, but for the mind's ear as well; yet the mind's ear can be trained only by the other, and the matter, practically considered, co…"

"I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but that of my ancestors, affected me in some …"

"In a vision of the night, I saw a man whose name was Victoricus coming as it from Ireland with innumerable letters, and he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of the letter: "The Voice of th…"

"My basis is supported by the authority of the greatest moralist of modern times; for such, undoubtedly, J. J. Rousseau is,—that profound reader of the human heart, who drew his wisdom not from books, …"

"More Readings from One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980 by Richard L. Proenneke"

"Kierkegaard at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library of Calvin College"

"So, I come home, I was so tired, and I look at my phone to check my messages, and I had a voicemail message from a guy by the name of Channing Tatum. Now, for those of you not "woo"-ing, let me explai…"

"Errata for all of Delany's novels, approved by the author."

"The wrecked Allcock, who 15 minutes earlier had finished sodomizing Bock in the library, raised his eyebrows as if wonderfully surprised."

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"An unbiased reader, on opening one of their books and then asking himself whether this is the tone of a thinker wanting to instruct or that of a charlatan wanting to impress, cannot be five minutes in…"

"The true Christian knows no Covenant or Mediation with God, but only the Old, Eternal, and Unchangeable Relation, that in Him we live, and move, and have our being; and he asks not who has said this, …"

"Reading Caterina Davinio’s Waiting for the End of the World, one is reminded of so many writers taking on the task of speaking for a desperate people – Léopold Sédar Senghor, whose conflated “Black Wo…"

"Miłosz reading his poems in English at UC Berkeley,"

"Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered."

"I no longer have collaborators. I used to be envious of them. They repel those readers whom I want to lose myself."

"Novelguid biographical sketch on Anna Warner"