"Do the children who prefer books set in……" — Laura Miller
"Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?"
—
Laura Miller
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
-
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…
-
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…
See all 39 quotes by Laura Miller »
More Book Quotes
This quote is filed under Book Quotes,
one of 14,007 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
See all 14,007 Book Quotes »