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

Maureen Corrigan
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  1. 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.

  2. 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

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

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

  5. Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.

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