What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unm… - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unm…
Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and b… - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and b…
Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches… - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches…
Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, tran… - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, tran…
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
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