“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
“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
“Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask” — 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
“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house - be it taking out the trash… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks… — 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
“Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of… — 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
