Quotes by : Laura Miller

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

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....

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that....

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling,....

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.....

A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the world....

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's....