Sandi

“It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.”
― Nicole Krauss

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen