Attics Quote by Alberto Manguel

“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension.…

— Nina Bernstein

“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.”

— Sara Sheridan

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise…

— Nick Bantock

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show…

— Claudia Gray

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but…

— Sinclair Lewis

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

— Helen Thomas

When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees…

— Alice Hoffman

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

— Leonard Cohen

Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around…

— Jonathan Stroud

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes,…

— Anonymous