Authors — Quotes

Anna Quindlen Quotes: 7

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
How Reading Changed My Life
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
How Reading Changed My Life
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...
How Reading Changed My Life
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
How Reading Changed My Life
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.