
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. LeGuin

Old-Fashioned Fruitcake

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. LeGuin
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
Sherlock Holmes
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)