Quotations
- “Fiction has never been entertainment for me. It has been the work I have done for most of my adult life. I believe that one of the principal ways we acquire, hold, and digest information is via narrative.” —Toni Morrison
- “Reading is the sole way means by which we slip involuntarily, often helplessly, into another' s skin, another's involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin another’s voice, another soul." --Joyce Carol Oates
- “We read to know we are not alone.” —C.S. Lewis
- “[The] problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about.”--William Faulkner in Nobel Prize speech
- "Trust the tale, not the teller."--D.H. Lawrence
- “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”—Jane Yolen
- “Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. . . . In childhood, all books are books of divination, telling us the future.”—Graham Greene
- •“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” –Astrid Lindgren
- "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had best stop writing for them." Louisa May Alcott about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”--E.B. White
- “In real life, a spider doesn’t spin words in her web . . . But real life is only one kind of life— There is also the life of the imagination.”--E.B. White
- “People believe almost anything they see in print.”--Charlotte (channeled through E.B. White)
- “By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.”-- Charlotte (channeled through E.B. White)
- “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."--Last two lines of Charlotte's Web
- "Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “”That’s a piecrust promise—easily made, easily broken."-- Mary Poppins (via P.L. Travers)
- "Reading a work in translation is like looking at the reverse side of a tapestry--you get the colors and the general design but miss the important small details."--John Clubbe
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