“Books are majical. With books we can be anyone, go everywhere, and do anything.”
“Because books can take you everywhere!”
“...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything”
“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.”
“This was globalization: everyone everywhere was interchangeable. You could be anyone anywhere to do anything.”
“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.”