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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Elizabeth Bowen

Book, Reading, People

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Elizabeth Bowen

Book, Reading, Mind

A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.

Elizabeth Bowen

Reading, Two, People