Each person has a literature inside them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
A novel is about people.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.
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