Amanda Schafer

“A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.”
― Richard D. Altick, Art of Literary Research

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies