Sara Nelson Quotes

#1. Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering
and sometimes a test

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#2. Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

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#3. You know you're in a bad patch when the most interesting part of the book you're reading is the acknowledgments page.

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#4. How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.

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#5. When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

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#6. Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.

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#7. Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.

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