Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Source: In Marxism Today, (London), Jan 1985.
-- Angela Carter, (May 7 1940-1992), English novelist, short-story writer; She wrote The Bloody Chamber, and Other Stories, 1979.