Quote for Today: Flora Rheta Schreiber
“Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don’t mean escape. You don’t escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. …
Quote for Today: Ken Liu
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, …
Quote for Today: Douglas Coupland
People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain …
Quote for Today: Martha Parravano
Consider a small child sitting on his mother’s lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at …
Quote for Today: Gabriel Josipovici
The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is …
Quote for Today: T. C. Boyle
I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. …
Quote for Today: Suzanne Berne
We are known, appreciated, even cherished by our favorite writers; every word of our favorite books seems to have been written for us. Within their sentences and paragraphs, those writers …
Quote for Today: David McCullough
Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped …
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new …
Quote for Today: Wendy Froud
My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. …