“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“I should like to freeze in time all those I do love… Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!”

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

“Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I’m trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.”

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“(Sylvia at typewriter) On Getting Old in America. By Sylvia. Page One. 1. Best to do it somewhere else.”

“Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)”