Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Reading
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.
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the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon
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