The Telling Of Stories Creates The Real

Every Reader Exists To Ensure For A Certain Book A Modest Immortality. Reading Is, In This Sense, A Ritual Of Rebirth.

If The Library Of Alexandria Was The Emblem Of Our Ambition Of Omniscience, The Web Is The Emblem Of Our Ambition Of Omnipresence; The Library That Contained Everything Has Become The Library That Contains Anything.

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

In Any Of My Pages In Any Of My Books May Life A Perfect Account Of My Secret Experience Of The World.

All These Are Readers, And Their Gestures, Their Craft, The Pleasure, The Responsibility And The Power They Derive From Reading, Are Common With Mine. I Am Not Alone.