All Lynne Sharon Schwartz Quotes
- 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 I… Anything Else
- Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. Backdrop
- 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 of… Answer
- In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. Book
- What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and… Available
- Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell. Environment
- Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of… Aliveness
- 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 leaps… Athlete
- 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 electronically… Bed
- I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? Book
- Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi… Air
- My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed,… Ache