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> [Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/reading-reading-was-the-stable-backdrop-against-which-my-life-was/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

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## More by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

> [“Yet when we do manage to create ourselves anew, isn’t there always a suspicion that the new identity fits over the old like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/yet-when-we-do-manage-to-create-ourselves-anew-isn-t-there-always-a/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/what-i-love-is-slowness-slow-people-slow-reading-slow-traveling-slow/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/the-stillness-and-stasis-of-bed-are-the-perfect-opposite-of-travel/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [“Real, she imagined later on, was something else; it had nothing to do with things you could touch. Real was being seen, noticed, acknowledged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/real-she-imagined-later-on-was-something-else-it-had-nothing-to-do/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/i-have-managed-not-to-finish-certain-books-with-barely-a-twinge-of/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [“But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/but-living-amid-so-many-words-i-overestimated-their-power-and-breadth/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/how-are-we-to-spend-our-lives-anyway-that-is-the-real-question-we/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [“She'd been prepared for him to say he was too old, she must put away that sweet but impractical idea, they would forget all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/she-d-been-prepared-for-him-to-say-he-was-too-old-she-must-put-away/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [“How did she do it, I'd always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain falls asleep on the job,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/how-did-she-do-it-i-d-always-wondered-dancing-with-q-i-understood/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/like-the-bodies-of-dancers-or-athletes-the-minds-of-readers-are/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/nothing-is-as-horrendous-as-imagining-the-times-of-happiness-from-an/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/leave-the-dishes-unwashed-and-the-demands-on-your-time-unanswered-be/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/getting-away-from-being-a-good-girl-is-important-because-it-s/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/my-head-aches-my-eyes-burn-my-arms-and-legs-have-given-up-and-my-face/)

[Lynne Sharon Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/)

> [“Does being true to one's self mean offering the literal truth or the truth that should have been, the truth of the image of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-sharon-schwartz/does-being-true-to-one-s-self-mean-offering-the-literal-truth-or-the/)

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