Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Dawn Raffel, On Reading
"I like reading aloud. It's how I write, and if I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a few pages aloud so I can absorb its cadences. I loved reading aloud to my children. And I love re-reading. The best books do not begin to reveal their secrets to you until you have read them two or three times."
{Dawn Raffel is the author of three books, most recently Further Adventures in the Restless Universe (Dzanc). She has recently completed a memoir in vignettes. Visit her website here for more information.}
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Yes re-reading is a bliss
ReplyDeleteI read poetry out loud to myself but I never thought of doing so with other genres but I will now!
ReplyDeleteSo that reading is sleeping. It is dreaming. These words, too, function as a verge. There are always secrets when you hitchhike; when you get into that car; when you go, which is reading; or loop back, to re-read. Your writing was next to mine like Barringer's, so I touched it. I said yes. I thought of Jane Eyre reading behind that heavy curtain, when I read your words.
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