"A biography of
any literary person ought to deal at length with what he read and when, for in
some sense, we are what we read."
Joseph Epstein,
"The Noblest Distraction," in Joseph Epstein, Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing (London: Norton,
1985), quoted in Maryanne Wolf, Proust
and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (New York:
HarperCollins, 2007), p. 5.
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