“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king”
― Where the Wild Things Are
― Where the Wild Things Are
“It’s better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― A Life with Books
― A Life with Books
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