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Wednesday, January 15, 2003

�The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.�
- E. M. Forester (1879 � 1970), British novelist and essayist: �A Book that Influence Me�, from �Two Cheers for Democracy�, 1951.

�Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman �other� or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.�
- Terry Eagleton (b. 1943), British critic: �The Revolt of the Reader�, 1982, reprinted in �Against The Grain�, 1986.

�Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.�
- Lucy Ellman (b. 1956), American novelist: in �The Guardian� (London), Aug. 30, 1990.

�You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?�
- Peter De Vries (1910 � 1993), American author: �Comfort Me With Apples�, 1956.

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