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“ Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores. ”

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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

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The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

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I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

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The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

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