47 quotes found
“I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.”
“The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.”
“The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.”
“Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”
“because we all know that the books weve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly”
“because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly”
“Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of th...”
“Litchat, however, is singleminded. Seemingly, it can only conceive of a writers persona as one thing at a time: a prick, a detached brainiac, a suffering saint. Litchat is adamant, yes, and impervi...”
“The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.”
“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds”
“If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You mi...”
“A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the world I live in, although sometimes it looks a lot like it. Sometimes, though, it feels closest to...”
“Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?”
“Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of tell...”
“If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.”
“She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. Its the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”
“Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.”
“There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewiss further suggestion that if we can find even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had be...”
“I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish...”
“I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults librarians, friends parents suggest to me that I liked books with magic because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the...”
“Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.”
“Litchat, however, is singleminded. Seemingly, it can only conceive of a writer’s persona as one thing at a time: a prick, a detached brainiac, a suffering saint. Litchat is adamant, yes, and imperv...”
“Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up her seat on the bus to a ...”
“She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.”
