Best 6 quotes of Laura Furman on MyQuotes

For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the margin of a draft - until the day when even the most devoted portraitist of the dead says, "Enough!" Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible - resurrection.

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.