Quote of the Day

I like to have (Nikki Giovanni's Love Poems) around in the kitchen so I can read a poem while the water boils and another while the butter melts, and so on.  It's a reminder to read slow and savor (Love Poems), and the smells of the cooking make me more aware of my senses.

-- Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451, p. 78

Quote of the Day

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

-- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

Reading has shaped me, guided me, reflected me, and helped me understand and connect with, and this is not hyperbole, HUMANITY.

-- Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451, p. 3

Quote of the Day

I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is; in every religion and every art form and don't tell me you haven't got time!  There's plenty of time.  You need all of these cross-references.  You never know when your head is going to use this fuel, this food for its purposes.

-- Ray Bradbury

Quote of the Day

I know books on a deep level.  So deep that, over the years, I've found myself talking to the books.  Only in my head, because I'm not crazy; but, inside my head, I talk to them in letter form, because books are fancy and need to be formally addressed.

-- Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451, p. 2