The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. (Norman Cousins)

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Norman Cousins

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