11 quotes found
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no...”
“The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldnt afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held li...”
“The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She ...”
“She wrote booksand she was happy.”
“...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us absorb other people's words, feeling like we have gotten t...”
“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.”
“They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really ...”
“The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held l...”
“She wrote books—and she was happy.”
