“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we’d both loved… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“...books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“a book by David K. Reynolds, who had, in the early 1980s, come up with a system he called Constructive Living, a… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything. — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Melanie’s… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they had.” “What… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“asked: “And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?” “Of course not—I’d read it first. I don’t think I could have stood… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
