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“Like all reading children... I read way ahead of myself, blundering into Austen and Voltaire and Dostoyevsky... understanding bits and not understanding lots; but that's how we learn to speak and read, isn't it?--by doing it: not word-by-word-exactly-correct, but with mistakes and misunderstandings, in bits and gulps and clumps that finally begin to stick together and make sense. Literature is a major tool for understanding the world and the life we have to live, and we learn to use it by using it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Like all reading children... I read way ahead of myself, blundering into Austen and Voltaire and Dostoyevsky... understanding bits and not understanding lots; but that's how we learn to speak and read, isn't it?--by doing it: not word-by-word-exactly-correct, but with mistakes and misunderstandings, in bits and gulps and clumps that finally begin to stick together and make sense. Literature is a major tool for understanding the world and the life we have to live, and we learn to use it by using it.