Laura Miller Quotes

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If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

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Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

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The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Laura Miller

Laura Miller

Laura Miller

Born: November 18, 1958 (age 66)

Bio: Laura Miller served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 2002 through 2007. She did not run for re-election in the 2007 mayoral race. She was the third woman to serve as mayor of Dallas.

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