“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.”
Interview with Max Eastman in Harper's Magazine, as quoted in James Joyce (1959) by Richard Ellmann. Eastman noted "He smiled as he said that — smiled, and then repeated it."
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