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Wendy Lesser, born on March 20, 1952, is an American novelist known for her delicate emotional descriptions and profound social insights. Her works have won the hearts of readers with their unique literary style and deep social observations.

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Famous Wendy Lesser Quotes

“The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.”

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Author:Wendy Lesser

“Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.”

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“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”

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Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.”

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Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

“I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.”

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Author:Wendy Lesser

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.”

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Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

“I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley.”

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Author:Wendy Lesser

About the Author

Born: March 20, 1952
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 7

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