You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

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