• 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
  British author 1940-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. re-writing
2. experience
3. anything
4. history
5. world
6. terms

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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. by : Angela Carter

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