Not sure if this is the quote you mean. I think there's another that says the same thing a little more succinctly.
"The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter."
I can understand. I don't think I ever braved HPFF, but it was hard enough dealing with snotty canon-thumpers at places like emmawatson.net, where they'd invade and make nasty comments on the H/Hr thread and take quotes back to their threads to dissect and whine about. I think the only place that the mods managed to make everyone play nice was the boards at Fiction Alley. And even there the H/Hr threads have died off since so many of us have retreated to other places or just moved into new fandoms.
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"The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter."
I can understand. I don't think I ever braved HPFF, but it was hard enough dealing with snotty canon-thumpers at places like emmawatson.net, where they'd invade and make nasty comments on the H/Hr thread and take quotes back to their threads to dissect and whine about. I think the only place that the mods managed to make everyone play nice was the boards at Fiction Alley. And even there the H/Hr threads have died off since so many of us have retreated to other places or just moved into new fandoms.