Gloria Goldreich > Quotes

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new best-seller. They met because literature was their shared passion. Books were as important to them as breath itself. They shared the ability to immerse themselves in the lives of fictional characters, to argue passionately about the development of plots, about decisions taken, dilemmas resolved.”
― Gloria Goldreich, Dinner with Anna Karenina

“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing them a magical crossover...They had spoken often, with rueful honesty, of how the books they read represented escape, offered pathways to literary landscapes that intrigued and engrossed...From childhood on, books had been the hot air balloons that carried them above the angry mutterings of quarreling parents, schoolyard rejections, academic boredom...They were of a kind, readers from birth.”
― Gloria Goldreich, Dinner with Anna Karenina

“for its very excellent and very”
― Gloria Goldreich, The Bridal Chair

“so far away. He lives in Vence, not in Jerusalem,” she”
― Gloria Goldreich, The Bridal Chair

“The intensity of that gaze never unnerved her. He was Marc Chagall, and he looked at her neither as man nor father but as an artist in the throes of creation. It”
― Gloria Goldreich, The Bridal Chair

“Anti-Semitism is a cancer,”
― Gloria Goldreich, The Paris Children