Paula Berinstein > Paula's Quotes

“I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.”
― Michael McDowell

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“In this moment there is no me, no him. Only us. One entity. One heart. One existence.”
― Siobhan Davis, Saven Disclosure

“The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.”
― Paula Berinstein