Quote by Will Schwalbe Download Open image ““The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett”” — Will Schwalbe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was Sinclair Lewis’s… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and… — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share Image
“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
“It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Melanie’s… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they had.” “What… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“asked: “And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?” “Of course not—I’d read it first. I don’t think I could have stood… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
