“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”

— Terry Eagleton

Source: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 13, The Revolt of the Reader

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British writer, academic and educator 1943

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