Joanna Burr

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own