Emily > Emily's Quotes

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life