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Quote by Claire Messud

“If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.”

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Claire Messud is an American novelist known for her profound psychological portrayals and complex character development. Her works often explore the lives, emotions, and identities of modern women. more

“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.”

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Author:Susan Hill

“A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.”

Book Left Objects Shelves New Life Inanimate Objects Chrysalis

Book:Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

Source: Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”

Giving Humans Wish Human Nature Features

Author:Eleanor Catton

“What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?”

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Author:Eleanor Catton

“I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.”

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Author:Eleanor Catton

“The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.”

Should Years House Rooms Numbers Couple Enjoyed True Happiness

Author:George Saunders

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