Leann

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”
― Jane Austen

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith