The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
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Who learns most from a good book is the author.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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