Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Vita Sackville-WestAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: english
- Born: March 9, 1892
- Died: June 2, 1962
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In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won't move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it ... To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it--everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is...
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