Quotes by : Laura Miller

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.....

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as....

Litchat, however, is singleminded. Seemingly, it can only conceive of a writer’s persona as one thing....

If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you....

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable....

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art....

I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old....

Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises.....

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura....