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Quote by Bill Willingham

“Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads”

Author

Bill Willingham, born in 1956, is an American writer known for his work in the fields of comics and novels. He is best recognized for his comic series 'Fables', which reimagines fairy tale characters in a modern setting. Willingham's works are celebrated for their rich imagination, profound themes, and unique narrative style. more

“It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.”

Reading Language

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.”

Reading Humour

Book:Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf.”

Reading Authors Love Of Books

Book:A Room of One’s Own

Source: A Room of One’s Own