Quote: The complexity of writing and reading

January 26th, 2006  |  Published in Books & Reading, Education, Quotes, Writing

Writing is the monumentally complex operation whereby experience, insight, and imagination are distilled into language; reading is the equally complex operation that disperses these distilled elements into another person’s life.

—Sven Birkets, The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), p. 96

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