“Dark books say to us, “This isn’t about you. You are in fact alive and safe.” Yes, there’s an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the time. I… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to me now.… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me—many… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final chapters approach,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . .… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“At the office I worked in before that, my required all employees to take a personality test that divided us neatly into one of… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.” — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto,… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“To quote Virginia Woolf, “If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone what to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just… — Pamela Paul Copy Share
