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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By …