Amazed Quote by Sophy Burnham

“The good thing about books is that they remain themselves. What happens in their pages stays there. Harriet does not like the idea of…

— Helen Humphreys

“Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close to an addiction. When things had…

— Sarah Morgan

“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book…

— Richard Wright

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have…

— Eudora Welty

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

“You can’t know someone’s story without reading the pages of their book.”

— Portia Moore

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched…

— Tahereh Mafi

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she…

— Beth Macy

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had…

— Félix J. Palma

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully…

— Lisa Scottoline