“I hold my book up to my face, sniff the pages. I love the way library books smell: more important than regular books, a grand olden-days smell, like the steps of a marble palace, or a senator.”
Source: The Paper Palace
“As a child, you sat in a circle around your teacher and looked at her face as she read a story, and you felt the magic of human narrative in a collective context.”
Source: The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human
“Do whatever you have to, to keep yourself reading.”
Source: Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind
“Every story has a story. And always more important than a story itself, is the reason behind why it was told.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“About the author: Sean Michael Norris believes that this book serves as a sort of autobiography. Despite the fact that this story is a fictional product of his imagination, he feels that it represents a true portrait of his experience — that it honestly depicts how a younger, more vulnerable version of himself saw the world. And if he’s right about that, then to read this book is to learn about its author at a deeper level than any list of biographical facts could ever enable you to reach.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around sexuality and reproduction mean if you come at them slant, if you disrupt them by the very fact of your being. Evictions and exclusions keep occurring.”
Source: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
“I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that I was very rarely in any assumed complicity with a writer or the world she created. It meant that I was almost always lost, and always foreign, and always had to make my way through with the only tool I had: continuing to read.”
Source: How to Read Now
“When I was a child, going to the library was magical.”
Source: Homeschooling on a Budget
“When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words stated not just to mean something, but everything.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Nu conteaza sa citesti, ci sa recitesti.”
Source: Cartea de nisip: proză completă 2