those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us...
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt n...
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come...
Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the people in them, every blessed one – Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Jay Gatsby, Elizabeth Be...
I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.
Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go and no imaginable reason on earth why I should want to leave. The buses took to ...
There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.
Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.
