The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.


The Author As Reader, p. 259. - A History of Reading (1996)

Alberto Manguel Quotes

The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at...

The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at...

The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at...

The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at...