Readers Quotes
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
How now, spirit, whither wander you?
This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?
Before there were books, we read each other.
...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.
You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse
MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know
There is an audience for everything
That which didn't kill them made them stranger.
If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.
As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.
Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.
For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.
We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books
A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential
This is the true alchemy - the transformation of fear into love. It's available to all of us. It can save the world.
It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.