Anna Quindlen Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Reading, Mind

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.20, Ballantine Books

• In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Book, Other Worlds

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

• How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Reading, Pride

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.20, Ballantine Books

• This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Children, Perfect

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.5, Ballantine Books

• Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Home, Doors

  Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.160, National Geographic Books

• What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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