Matthew Pearl Quotes

My wife and I sometimes read books together. It's kind of like bed talk.

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,' you're going to talk about heartbreak and loss and all of those things that people don't talk about as a community.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

It's important for us to tell our stories.

As TV embedded itself into the national consciousness, it got us to remember how more than just the facts transmits truth and reality - and in fun, engaging ways. TV also showed us how telling our stories, confronting our own truths makes us and the people with whom we're sharing feel less lonely and alienated.

Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

I want to touch people's lives, and bring them along with me.

To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.