Tara Bray Smith Quotes

• I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Book, Writing, People

  "Marginalia and Other Crimes". Essay by Tara Bray Smith in a book "Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Time" by Kevin Smokler, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

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• I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Hands, Used, Conversation

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• Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Book, Certain, Spills

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• Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Dog, Book, Reading

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