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
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You...
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You...
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You...
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You...
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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. When reading, you bring everything you know about the world because you are creating your own world within the novel. You are using all the knowledge about the world that you have learned to create an imagined world inside of the novel.

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