Aram Zucker-Scharff

You should be embarrassed to like Young Adult novels.:

katiecoyle:

You should be embarrassed to like novels at all. You should be embarrassed to know how to read. You should be embarrassed to take pleasure in words, arranged into sentences, arranged into paragraphs, arranged into scenes, arranged into books. It’s unnatural, and you should be embarrassed.

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Author Iain Banks dies aged 59:

One of my favorite authors. He’ll be missed. 

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.”

– Marcel Proust, Le temps retrouve. Epigraph from A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (via epigraphic)