Quotable Sundays

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

~Douglas Adams

Quotable Sundays

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

~Albert Einstein

Quotable Sundays

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have  to stay where we are.

~Mason Cooley

Quotable Sundays

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

~Stephen King

Quotable Sundays

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

~Lloyd Alexander

Quotable Sundays

The universe is full of magical things. Patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

~Eden Phillpotts, 1862-1960

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"Here I sit in the presence of queens and heroes and magic. Yes, magic. It is only when we have grown too old that we fail to see that the Maker's world is swollen with magic - it hides in plain sight in music and water and even bumblebees"

Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten 

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"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

~C. S. Lewis

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"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." 
~Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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I soon realized that a sudent of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscentious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

~Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Quotable Sundays

When you write fiction you are speaking with character and action, not about character and action.

~Flannery O'Connor, "The Nature and Aim of Fiction"

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The primary job that any writer faces is to tell you a story of human experiences--I mean by that, universal mutual experiences, the anguishes and troubles and gifts of the human heart, which is universal, without regard to race or time or condition.

~William Faulkner, Faulkner at West Point

Quotable Sundays

The constructs of the imagination tell us things about human life that we don't get in any other way.

~Northrup Frye, The Educated Imagination

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"The king died and then the queen died," is a story. "The king died, and then the queen died of grief," is a plot. . . If it is in a story we say "and then?" If it is in a plot we ask "why?"

~E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

Quotable Sundays

"On the whole, my books are concerned with children tackling the problems of an adult world in which things have gone wrong.

~Joan Aiken, "Between Family and Fantasy"

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"A book begins with falling in love. You lose your heart to a place, a house, an avenue of trees, or with a character who walks in and takes sudden and complete possession of you. Imagination glows, and there is the seed of your book."

~Elizabeth Goudge, The Joy of Snow

Quotable Sundays

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

~George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

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"Art is one of the means by which man grapples and assimilates reality."

~Ralph Fox, The Novel and the People

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"I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality."

~Flannery O'Connor, "The Nature and Aim of Fiction"

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"The poet's job is not to tell you what happened, but what happens: not what did take place, but the kind of thing that always does take place."

~Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination