Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
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I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
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