A Writing Quote From Charles De Lint

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it … How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A good book reflects the reader, as much as it illuminates the author’s text.”

~ Charles De Lint, The Little Country (1991)

~*~

“Yes,” I said, on reading these lines in Charles de Lint’s The Little Country. For me, the quote resonated with others that see reading as an interactive process between writer and reader—like the AS Byatt quote here, or the very salient observation...