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"Facts are a very inferior form of fiction"

The Sheila Heti quote: “ I never feel more valuable as a reader than when I am reading a friends draft. And it’s a special pleasure to know that my reading can change a book, not only that a book can change me”

“ if this is so, if to read a book as it should be read calls for the rarest qualities of imagination, insight, and judgement, you may perhaps conclude that literature is a very complex art and that it is unlikely that we shall be able, even after a lifetime of reading, to make any valuable contribution to its criticism.”