dialyn opened this issue on Apr 13, 2003 ยท 5 posts
dialyn posted Sun, 13 April 2003 at 9:03 AM
"A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us."
"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development." - Dorothy L. Sayers
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -Dorothy Parker
The following are bookmarks available in O; the Oprah Magazine this month (April, 2003):
"Read not to contradict and confute...nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." - Sir Francis Bacon
"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." - Harold Bloom
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." - Salman Rushdie
"It seems, somehow, that she has left her own world and entered the realm of the book." - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.