Workaday World Quotes by Laura Miller

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• Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
• Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much…
• Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
• Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or…
• The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love…
• Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
• If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly…
• There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.
• The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
• Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
• It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they…
• The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

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