Laura Miller Quotes

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Context shapes who you are.

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

... we are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.

Books wind into the heart.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

I am driven by love and I have been in love with a handful of different people, men and women. It's like, if you go to a bookstore and you know exactly what kind of book you want, you have to look it up in the system because it's in a specific section of the bookstore. I fit into a handful of sections in the bookstore.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.