Where Books Fall Open Quotes

“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over your face, and you know where you are going to be for the afternoon.”
― Roy Blount Jr., Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

“Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.”
― Roy Blount Jr., Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

“So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of the physical world - wading through things? Surf. Kelp. Books. Summer.”
― Roy Blount Jr., Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

“What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.”
― Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion