Angela Carter Quotes About Writing
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
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I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.
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