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Ocupation: Novelist

Life: b. March 20, 1952

Birthday: March 20

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Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

source: - Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.6, Macmillan

Topics: Reading, Literature, Way, Reaching Back, Reading Literature

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We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

source: - Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan

Topics: Meaningful, Loss, Order

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

source: - Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.98, Macmillan

Topics: Self, Voice, Greek, Chaucer, Dostoyevsky

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

source: - "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books". Book by Wendy Lesser, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.

Topics: Reading, Giving, Answers

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley.

Topics: Character, Men, Thinking, Berkeley

The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.

Topics: Echoes, Errors, Mind

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Topics: Lying, Half, Half Truth, Pernicious

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