December 2011
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Myths, Fairytales, and Fables: Where Imagination... →
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We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...
– Philip Pullman
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gangrel: a lanky, loose-jointed person OR a wandering beggar; vagabond; vagrant.
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There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in...
– Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least...
– George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in...
– Henry David Thoreau
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I tell you sir, that the end of the world has come. No one has ever beheld such...
– Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (1831)
Even then.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
– Victor Hugo
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Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget...
– Neil Gaiman
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course,...
– Philip Pullman, The War on Words (2004)
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...
– William Faulkner
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There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a...
– Emily Dickinson
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it...
– E.L. Doctorow
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely...
– George Gordon, Lord Byron
daniellephantus asked: Just wanted to say, this is a lovely blog! I really appreciate all the effort and love you put into it -- it makes me remember all the things I loved about reading as a kid, and encourages me in all the things I want to be as a writer/person now. Thank you for contributing such wonderful work!
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the-air-is-delicate replied to your photoset: Promoting Children’s Literacy Library Display Part…
You really did a fantastic job with these displays. Awesome.
Thanks! I had lots of help :)
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