Best 8 quotes of Julie Schumacher on MyQuotes

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

Boredom is why God invented books.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

...the literature student has learned to inquire, to question, to interpret, to critique, to compare, to research, to argue, to sift, to analyze, to shape, to express. His intellect can be put to broad use. The computer major, by contrast, is a technician - a plumber clutching a single, albeit shining, box of tools.

Young would-be novelists and poets believe that art is eternal. Au contraire: we are in the business of ephemera, the era of floating islands of trash, and most of the things we feel deeply and inscribe on the page will disappear.