"Buying a book is not about obtaining a……" — Laura Miller

"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."

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39 Quotes by Laura Miller

Laura Miller has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult…
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall…
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…
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…
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in…
It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach,…
The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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