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. …
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: Umberto Eco
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 …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to …
Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. …
Quote for Today: Jo Walton
I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s …