Karen Brooks > Karen's Quotes

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft