Maureen Corrigan Quotes
11 quotes
in 260 categories
-
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy…
-
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
-
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy…
-
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the…
-
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
-
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories…
-
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
-
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there…
-
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
-
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want…
-
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of…
Browse Maureen Corrigan Quotes by Category