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“More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
“Not long ago I was invited to a librarians’ event by a lady who cheerfully told me, “We like to think of ourselves as ‘information providers.’” I was appalled by this want of ambition; I made my excuses and didn’t go. After all, if you have a choice, why not call yourselves “Shining Acolytes of the Sacred Flame of Literacy in a Dark and Encroaching Universe”? I admit this is hard to put on a button, so why not abbreviate it to “librarians”?”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
“Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
“And I went on reading; and, since if you read enough books you overflow, I eventually became a writer.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
“Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
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