Quotes by readers

“This is the true alchemy - the transformation of fear into love. It's available to all of us. It can save the world.”

“Before there were books, we read each other.”

“In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.”

“If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.”

“That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and public sharing. As a parent in that landscape, you'll need to be sometime...”

“A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential”

“We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books”

“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”

“Sara couldn't help but think that she had somehow missed the moment when life was meant to begin. For a long time she had simply drifted through it, reading. While everyone around her was teenaged,...”

“Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.”

“There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.”

“As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.”

“That which didn't kill them made them stranger.”

“It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.”

“Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know”

“There is an audience for everything”

“there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.”

“MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time”

“Readers of Darwin's life, for instance, and particularly of the published correspondence of Darwin, are henceforth naturalists in the making. Ever afterwards they are Darwins on a small scale, seei...”

“Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.”