“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“The proper act of reading of a poem was not an act of passive submission but one of collaboration with its author.”
Drums of Morning, 1992
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