Gianna

“But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell