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The Best Moments – Alan Bennett on Reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

Alan Bennett

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7 comments on “The Best Moments – Alan Bennett on Reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS”

  1. Glen Available
    February 18, 2024
    Glen Donaldson's avatar

    This is what the author of the publishing phenomena that is YELLOWFACE (2023) did for me literally hundreds and hundreds of times within the one, completely caressable (yes, caressable!) and transporting novel.

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    • bridget whelan
      February 20, 2024
      bridget whelan's avatar

      Must read it. Seems to be a marmite book – it’s a love/hate read

      Reply
  2. beth
    February 18, 2024
    beth's avatar

    oh, so very true and perfectly described

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  3. Jennie
    February 18, 2024
    Jennie's avatar

    Lovely and true!

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