Sue > Sue's Quotes

“The scrape of the skates on the ice. The smell of musty old equipment. The black puck stains on the boards. To the uninitiated they're nothing, but to a hockey player they're home.”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

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

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and to be motivated.
I read to understand things I've never
been exposed to.
I read when I'm crabby, when I've just
said monumentally dumb things to the
people I love.
I read for strength to help me when I
feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I read when I'm angry at the whole
world.
I read when everything is going right.
I read to find hope.
I read because I'm made up not just of
skin and bones, of sights, feelings,
and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm
also made up of words.
Words describe my thoughts and what's
hidden in my heart.
Words are alive--when I've found a
story that I love, I read it again and
again, like playing a favorite song
over and over.
Reading isn't passive--I enter the
story with the characters, breathe
their air, feel their frustrations,
scream at them to stop when they're
about to do something stupid, cry with
them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a
friend.
A book is a friend.
You can never have too many.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“The bookshelf in my heart holds many titles. So can yours.”
― Sylvia McNicoll

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
― Jane Yolen

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
― Holbrook Jackson

“Magic
Oh, a bottle of ink, a bottle of ink!
What’s bottled up in a bottle of ink?
Princes and ponies and pirates and bees,
Pixies and brownies and magical keys,
Lions and tigers and ladies and knights,
Colourful peeps at most marvellous sights,
Witches and goblins and fairies and fays,
Heroes who lived in the far-away days—
More wonderful things than you ever could think,
All bottled up in a bottle of ink!”
― Blanche Jennings Thompson