Avid Reader Quotes

“But I had learned a lesson about the overwhelming need of narcissists to be in the right, and to punish those by whom they feel slighted.”
― Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life

“in a novel about a New Zealand schoolteacher who had invented a radical way of teaching reading to Maori children. This was hardly an ideal subject for American fiction readers”
― Robert Adams Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life

“Anyone can be adorable. Not many can be industrious. With results.”
― Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life

“And even as the chariot of time hustles me along, I never forget that Bob Caro is coming up from behind with volume five of LBJ. I hope he makes it. I hope I make it.”
― Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life

“Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.”
― Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life