Ian Mcewan Reading Quotations
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Reading Quotes from:
- All Reading Quotes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- C S Lewis
- Neil Gaiman
- Virginia Woolf
- Alberto Manguel
- John Green
- Samuel Johnson
- Daniel Handler
- Stephen King
- Ray Bradbury
- Thomas Jefferson
- Margaret Atwood
- Mason Cooley
- Anna Quindlen
- Dave Barry
- Haruki Murakami
- Jeanette Winterson
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Nick Hornby
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Writing Quotes
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.
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Book Quotes
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?