Sharon > Sharon's Quotes

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us—some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”
― Laurie R. King

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.”
― P.C. Cast, Divine By Mistake

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Ah! madam,” cried Emma, “if other children are at all like what I remember to have been myself, I should think five times of the amount of what I have ever yet heard named as a salary on such occasions, dearly earned.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“That old mountebank? He won’t find out anything. He’s all talk and moustaches.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“I had little to do save nod my head and look intelligent—and that last is perhaps over optimistic.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage