Chapters Quote by L. Frank Baum

“Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.”

— L. Frank Baum

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

— L. Frank Baum

“...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't climb Mount…

— Steve Dublanica

“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that…

— J. Don Cook

“Please please read. Everything and anything. You may not remember all of it, you may not remember any of it But from the fairytailes...to…

— Amy Mowafi

The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and…

— Kate DiCamillo

“The plainest of ordinary lives conceals the possibility of something fabulous.”

— Boccaccio

“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little carved-out sphere-is…

— Lauren Oliver

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the…

— John Donne

“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look…

— Dai Sijie

“I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can…

— Virginia McKenna