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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
“E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.”
— Anne Lamott · Book
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“E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.”
“Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.”
“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”
“I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.”
“Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.”
“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.”
“You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.”
“I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them.”
“A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.”
“I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.”
“My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.”
“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.”