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Angela Carter Quotes about Writing

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter
Book, Reading, Writing

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Angela Carter
Book, Writing, What Matters
Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Angela Carter
Book, Reading, Writing

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

Angela Carter
Lonely, Writing, Thinking
Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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