If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
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A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.
Books and marriage go ill together.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.