We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.


Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (ed. Vintage, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307431356

Maureen Corrigan Quotes

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally...

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally...

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally...

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally...