I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.