June G

“It’s always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Ann Patchett”
― Ann Patchett

“Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don’t understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . '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

“All of a sudden I became aware of how very hungry I was to construct and inhabit an imagined world.”
― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.”
― Paul Leicester Ford, The Story of an Untold Love