Why I Write in the Margins

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A margin is a quiet place. It sits beside the finished sentence and gives the reader room to answer, disagree, remember, or simply pause. That small field of white space turns reading from reception into conversation.

I return to marked books because they preserve more than their author's words. They hold the person I was when I first met them: hurried or patient, certain or searching. The notes become a second, private text running alongside the first.