Christine

“Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go and no imaginable reason on earth why I should want to leave. The buses took to the interstate without me, the trains sped by. So I wandered the world through books. I went to Victorian England in the pages of 'Middlemarch' and 'A little Princess', and to Saint Petersburg before the fall of the tsar with 'Anna Karenina'. I went to Tara, and Manderley, and Thornfield Hall, all those great houses, with their high ceilings and high drama, as I read 'Gone with the Wind', 'Rebecca' and 'Jane Eyre'.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life