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Paul Theroux Quotes

Paul Theroux quotes about reading

American Novelist April 10, 1941

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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of..."
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. Paul Theroux
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. Paul Theroux
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books."
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. Paul Theroux

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