Molly > Molly 's Quotes

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf

“Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.”
― Mary Oliver

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”
― Philip Pullman

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience