Best 9 quotes of Pamela Dean on MyQuotes

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

A collaborative analysis: i.e, he asked questions until he got either the answers he wanted or some other that was acceptable because he had never thought of it.

Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?

I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles.

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feeltrue to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

Peg was involved in a common form of senior-year panic that caused its victims to exhibit permanent distraction and to take up residence in the library.

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

Why do all your friends talk like books?