Every Text Assumes A Reader.

I Quickly Learned That Reading Is Cumulative And Proceeds By Geometrical Progression: Each New Reading Builds Upon Whatever The Reader Has Read Before.

In The Light, We Read The Inventions Of Others; In The Darkness We Invent Our Own Stories.

Readers Are Bullied In Schoolyards And In Locker-rooms As Much As In Government Offices And Prisons.

If The Library In The Morning Suggests An Echo Of The Severe And Reasonable Wishful Order Of The World, The Library At Night Seems To Rejoice In The World's Essential, Joyful Muddle.

I Always Knew That I Wanted To Live With Books, Even As A Child, Because We Traveled A Lot. Home Was The Book To Which I Came Back Every Evening.