Quotes by Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

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The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person t — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation. — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphe — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to whi — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their abil — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all. For any given reader, ho — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
What we are able to say about our intimate relation with a book will have more force if we have not thought about it exc — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read