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Reading Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging…
- And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the…
- E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five…
- I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper…
- For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…
- We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's…
- There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and…
- Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
- There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their…
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