A Book Quote for Sunday: from AS Byatt

“Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”

~ A.S. Byatt, Possession

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I quoted this in my Monday post on Truth, Lies, & Storytelling—but I liked it so much that I decided to feature it today. I feel it captures something intrinsic about the writer/reader relationship, as well as the essentially solitary, individual experience that is reading.

Enjoy!