Quotes by : Maureen Corrigan

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes....

My own mother, who's always dazzled by my faculty and answering questions in the literature a category....

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest....

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out....

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk....

Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who....