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1 " Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? "
― Cornelia Funke
2 " If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, " an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else. "
3 " You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye. "
― Walter B. Pitkin , The Art of Rapid Reading
4 " Generally, writers descend from a lesser tribe, and whatever claim to beauty we have shows up on the printed page far more often than it does in our mirrors. Even as I writer these words I think of dozens off writers, both male and female, who make a mockery of this generalization. But comeliness among writers is rare enough to be noteworthy. "
― Pat Conroy , A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
