Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: โEvery living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universeโ
Paul AusterReading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.
Paul AusterNobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
Paul Auster