“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

— Madeleine L'Engle, book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go th…" by Madeleine L'Engle?

Madeleine L'Engle223

American writer 1918–2007

Related quotes

“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“In my opinion, people in our society are becoming like clones. Children are not reading books, and they are not learning by doing. They're just sitting and watching each other be pretty. Like my vases.”

Guity Novin (1944) artist

Etelaat-e-Banoovan,(1971) no 755, Year Fifteenth,Wednesday 15th December.

“I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.”

Jonathan Davis (1971) Heavy metal singer, frontman for Korn

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”

Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer

Source: Magonia

“I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother.
“No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“I read often but, the genre I go to is mystery. I like to write my own stories but as you know, people often die in mysteries, so someone often dies in my stories. Also, I like to go to art galleries on my day offs.”

Noa Tsurushima (2001) Japanese actress

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I always keep four or five books on my bed table, and each night I read a little of each; I guess I can't concentrate on any one at a time. But I always finish them.”

Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) Romanian American actor

Source: Op. cit., p. 278

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Madeleine L'Engle223

Related quotes

Related topics